Patient–Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology) - Softcover

Farah, Martha J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262561239 ISBN 13: 9780262561235

Publisher: MIT Press, 2000

Synopsis

The cognitive disorders that follow brain damage are an important source of insight into the neural bases of human thought. Although cognitive neuroscience is sometimes equated with cognitive neuroimaging, the patient-based approach to cognitive neuroscience is responsible for most of what we now know about the brain systems underlying perception, attention, memory, language and higher-order forms of thought including consciousness. This volume brings together state-of-the-art reviews of the patient-based approach to these and other central issues in cognitive neuroscience, written by leading authorities. Part 1 covers the history, principles and methods of patient-based neuroscience: lesion method, imaging, computational modelling and anatomy. Part 2 covers perception, attention and neglect, disorders of perception and awareness, and misidentification syndromes. Part 3 covers language: aphasia, language disorders in children, specific language impairments, developmental dyslexia, acquired reading disorders and agraphia. Part 4 covers memory: amnesia and semantic memory impairments. Part 5 covers higher cognitive functions: frontal lobes, callosal disconnection (split brain), skilled movement disorders, acalculia, dementia, delirium and degenerative conditions including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease.

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Review

--T. W. Robbins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

" This is a stimulating synthesis of the theory and methodology of cognitive neuroscience and the clinical insights of behavioral neurology. With its concise treatments of a wide range of cognitive disorders, the book provides an invaluable and readable manual for both clinicians and non-clinicians, researchers and practitioners alike." --T. W. Robbins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

& quot; This is a stimulating synthesis of the theory and methodology of cognitive neuroscience and the clinical insights of behavioral neurology. With its concise treatments of a wide range of cognitive disorders, the book provides an invaluable and readable manual for both clinicians and non-clinicians, researchers and practitioners alike.& quot; --T. W. Robbins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

"This is a stimulating synthesis of the theory and methodology of cognitive neuroscience and the clinical insights of behavioral neurology. With its concise treatments of a wide range of cognitive disorders, the book provides an invaluable and readable manual for both clinicians and non-clinicians, researchers and practitioners alike."--T. W. Robbins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

About the Author

Martha J. Farah is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Center for Neuroscience & Society. She has worked on many topics within neuroscience, including vision, prefrontal function, emotion, and development. In her three decades of research she has witnessed the advent of functional neuroimaging, the burgeoning of cognitive neuroscience, and its expansion into the study of social and affective processes. She is now focusing her attention on the ethical, legal and social implications of these developments. Todd E. Feinberg is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0262561239
• ISBN 13: 9780262561235
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 428