The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology

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MIT Press, 1996 - Medical - 529 pages

Neurologists, neuropsychologists, and cognitive scientists work with many of the same problems and patients and yet know little about the literature and approaches of the other disciplines. The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology is a primer for neurology residents, graduate students, and established professionals from other fields who wish to enter behavioral neurology. It provides a clear and coherent introduction to contemporary neurological ideas, carefully contrasting the conventional hierarchical model of brain organization to the newer multiplex model that scientists from biological backgrounds currently use. Instead of presenting laundry lists of arcane maladies along with a key of "where in the brain the responsible lesion is," or a compendium of tests for a given situation--the received wisdom that students are required to memorize--Cytowic gives students the historical and conceptual tools they need not only to get up to speed regarding present knowledge, but to go forward.

 

Contents

What Is Neuropsychology?
1
Science Is Counterintuitive
17
Concepts of Mind
25
Concepts of Neural Tissue
55
How to Examine a Patient
139
Formal Neuropsychological Assessment
167
Symptoms Caused by Focal Lesions in
209
Disconnection Syndromes
265
Memory and Amnesia
313
An Example of Diffuse Disease
343
The Epilepsies
389
Spatial Knowledge
417
Language
459
Traditional Codicils
475
Index
519
Copyright

Emotion Consciousness and Subjectivity
283

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About the author (1996)

Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., MFA, a pioneering researcher in synesthesia, is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University. He is the author of Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology and (with David M. Eagleman) the Montaigne Medal-winner W ednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, all published by the MIT Press.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Neurological Side of Neuropsychology
A Bradford book
AuthorRichard E. Cytowic
Editionillustrated
PublisherMIT Press, 1996
ISBN0262032317, 9780262032315
Length529 pages
Subjects › 

Medical / Internal Medicine
Medical / Neurology
Medical / Neuroscience
Psychology / Clinical Psychology
Psychology / Neuropsychology
  
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