Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology: An Evolutionary Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783319331799 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 326 str.

Michael Hoffmann

Opis

This ground breaking title presents the many different neurologic syndromes and vastly expanding data in the brain sciences from an evolutionary, or neuro-archeological, perspective, as well as a clinical one.

Recenzje

"This is a top-notch and fascinating book presenting an evolutionary perspective of brain-behavior relationships in an effort to find a deeper understanding of behavioral and cognitive neurological syndromes. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the brain and behavior. It is a welcome addition to the neurological and psychiatric literature." (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2017)

Spis treści

Chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 2

Cognitive archeology, cognitive neurology and the unraveling of the connectome: Divulging brain function from fractured skulls and fractured minds

Chapter 3

Neurochemistry 

Chapter 4

Vision: elementary and complex visual processing

Chapter 5 

Temporal lobe syndromes 

Chapter 6

Memory Syndromes

Chapter 7

Left Hemisphere Syndromes – Apraxias

Chapter 8

Parietal lobe syndromes

Chapter 9

Right Hemisphere Syndromes

Chapter 10

Language, aphasias and related disorders

Chapter 11

Acquired Cultural Circuits

Chapter 12

Frontal System Syndromes

Chapter 13

Neuroimaging and treatments perspectives

O autorze

Michael Hoffmann MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.

Orlando VA Medical Center, Orlando, Florida

Department of Neurology

Florida

USA

     

Blurb

This ground breaking title presents the many different neurologic syndromes and vastly expanding data in the brain sciences from an evolutionary, or neuro-archeological, perspective, as well as a clinical one.  The neuro-archeological perspective offers a more thorough picture of the field – providing hindsight that leads to great insight and foresight. It thus provides the reader with the core foundational aspects of many perplexing neurologic syndromes.  Authored by a noted authority in cognitive neurology and including ample tables, diagrams and images, the book covers the full range of behavioral neurological, psychological and neuropsychiatric syndromes, as well as their underlying disease states, relevant neuropsychological tests and contemporary neuroimaging, both structural and functional.  The evolutionary approach offers a comprehensive, novel, and completely updated overview of each topic.  An invaluable title unlike any other in the field, Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology: An Evolutionary Perspective is a landmark resource and will be of great interest to neurologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and trainees in all fields.