The Essential Handbook of Memory Disorders for Clinicians - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047009141X ISBN 13: 9780470091418

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

This concise version of the Handbook of Memory Disorders is a selection of chapters from the original volume that have been chosen with the busy practitioner in mind.  The Essential Handbook provides individual clinicians and students with those parts the editors consider most relevant and useful on a day-to-day basis, as a portable adjunct to the more comprehensive Handbook.

 (Handbook of Memory Disorders - 047 149819X) 

About this title

About the Author

Alan D. Baddeley, Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Alan Baddeley was Director of the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, UK for over 20 years. He is now at the University of York. He is a cognitive psychologist with broad interests in the functioning of human memory under both normal conditions and conditions of brain damage and stress.

Michael D. Kopelman, Neuropsychiatry and Memory Disorders Clinic, St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK
Michael Kopelman is Professor of Neuropsychiatry in the Institute of Psychiatry based at St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College, London. He holds qualifications in both neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology, and has particular interest and expertise in a wide range of memory disorders, both neurological and psychogenic. He runs a neuropsychiatry and memory disorders clinic at St Thomas’s Hospital.

Barbara A. Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK
Barbara Wilson is a senior scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and is Director of Research at the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Ely, UK. She is a clinical psychologist with particular interests in the impact of neuropsychological memory deficits on everyday functioning and improving methods of neurorehabilitation. She was awarded an OBE in 1998 for services to medical rehabilitation, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.

From the Back Cover

Recent years have seen some key advances in both the understanding of memory disorders and the assessment and treatment of patients.

This selection from the very comprehensive second edition of The Handbook of Memory Disorders is a concise collection that distils those chapters of most relevance to clinical practice. The Essential Handbook is designed for forward-looking and busy clinicians who wish to inform their practice with recent research.

Contributors
Alan D. Baddeley, UK
James T. Becker, USA
Jason Brandt, USA
Linda Clare, UK
Elizabeth L.Glisky, USA
Gerri Hanten, USA
Diane B. Howieson, USA
Narinder Kapur, UK
Michael D. Kopelman, UK
Harvey S. Levin, USA
Muriel D. Lezak, USA
Judith A. Middleton, UK
Cynthia A. Munro, USA
Margaret O'Connor, USA
Amy A. Overman, USA
Robyn L. Tate, Australia
Christine M. Temple, UK
Mieke Verfaellie, USA
Barbara A. Wilson, UK
Bob Woods, UK

This selection from the very comprehensive second edition of The Handbook of Memory Disorders is a concise collection that distils those chapters of most relevance to clinical practice. The Essential Handbook is designed for forward-looking and busy clinicians who wish to inform their practice with recent research.

Contributors
Alan D. Baddeley, UK
James T. Becker, USA
Jason Brandt, USA
Linda Clare, UK
Elizabeth L.Glisky, USA
Gerri Hanten, USA
Diane B. Howieson, USA
Narinder Kapur, UK
Michael D. Kopelman, UK
Harvey S. Levin, USA
Muriel D. Lezak, USA
Judith A. Middleton, UK
Cynthia A. Munro, USA
Margaret O'Connor, USA
Amy A. Overman, USA
Robyn L. Tate, Australia
Christine M. Temple, UK
Mieke Verfaellie, USA
Barbara A. Wilson, UK
Bob Woods, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 047009141X
• ISBN 13: 9780470091418
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Baddeley Alan D., Kopelman Michael, Wilson Barbara A.