Cognitive neurology: a clinical textbook

Cappa, Stefano, Abutalebi, Jubin, Demonet, Jean-François, Fletcher, Paul and Garrard, Peter (eds.) (2008) Cognitive neurology: a clinical textbook , Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press, 536pp.

Abstract

The study of patients affected by disorders of the central nervous system is one of the crucial research methods for investigating the organization of cognitive functions in the brain. However, many clinicians remain unaware of the significant advances that have taken place in the field of cognitive neuroscience in the last decades. This book provides an introduction to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of the clinical practice of neurology.
Most of the contributors to this book combine an active clinical practice with a leading role in their respective research area, and have provided concise summaries of the theoretical advances which they consider as potentially relevant for the clinical evaluation and treatment of patients. This general approach has led to a format which is different from the many textbooks of neuropsychology that have appeared in the last few years. The organization of the material follows the main issues of diagnostic evaluation, clinical presentation and management. As a consequence, the book deals not only with the classical neuropsychological syndromes associated with stroke and degenerative dementias, but also with other common clinical conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, head injury, epilepsy and psychiatric disorders, which are often neglected in neuropsychology textbooks.
Part I - Assessment Methods
1: Jean-François Demonet: Clinical examination
2: Jeremie Pariente: Neuropsychological testing
3: Guillaume Thierry: Neuroimaging and other ancillary techniques Part II - Neuropsychological Syndromes Associated with Focal Brain Damage Julien Bogousslavsky: Introduction
4: Jubin Abutalebi & Stefano F Cappa: Language disorders
5: Ferdinand Binkofski & Kathrin Reetz: Apraxia
6: Angelo Maravita: Spatial disorders
7: Sandra Lehmann & Armin Schnider: Memory disorders
8: Jean-Marie Annoni: Neurobehavioural disorders after stroke
9: Stefano F Cappa & Lisa Cipolotti: Cognitive and behavioural disorders associated with space-occupying lesions Part III - Dementias
10: Peter Garrard: Differential diagnosis in dementia
11: Andrew J Larner: Alzheimer's Disease
12: Jared Narvid & Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini: Frontotemporal lobar dementia
13: John Bowler: Vascular dementia
14: John E Duda & Ian G McKeith: Cortical Lewy body disease: dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia
15: William S Brooks, Clement T Loy, John B J Kwok & Peter R Schofield: Genetics of dementia Part IV - Cognitive Disorders in other Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases
16: Anna Mazzucchi: Cognitive and behavioural disorders following traumatic brain injury
17: Daniela Wyss & Jurg Kesselring: Neuropsychological problems: cognitive and affective disturbances in MS
18: Christoph Helmstaedter: Neuropsychology of epilepsy
19: J H Barnett & Paul C Fletcher: Cognition in schizophrenia
20: Belinda Lennox & Paul C Fletcher: Neurocognition of depression
21: Sean A Spence: 'Others' and others: hysteria and the divided self
Part V - Treatment Issues
22: Ulrich Mueller: Pharmacological treatment
23: Stefano F Cappa: Rehabilitation of cognitive disorders

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