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Clinical neuropsychology : behavioral and brain science /
Clinical Neuropsychology is an up-to-the minute overview of the major and many interesting minor disorders and behavioral syndromes caused by localized brain damage or abnormal brain functioning. The text combines clinical findings with studies on normal, healthy individuals to provide a comprehensi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego :
Academic Press,
�1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Clinical Neuropsychology: Behavioral and Brain Science; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. An Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology; Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology; Important Assumptions in Neuropsychology; Conceptual Issues in Neuropsychology; Cerebral Circulation and Stroke; Stroke Syndromes Associated with Lesions in Major Arterial Fields; Neuroimaging Techniques; Neural Networks; Summary and Conclusions; Further Reading; Chapter 2. Disorders of Speech; Morphological Asymmetries in the Brain.
- Other Evidence for Evolutionary Adaptations for LanguageAphasia: General Considerations; Wernicke's Aphasia; Broca's Aphasia; Other Types of Aphasia; Subcortical Aphasias; Illustrative Case History of Paroxysmal Aphasia; Summary and Conclusions; Further Reading; Chapter 3. Disorders of Reading and Writing; Alexia with Agraphia; Alexia without Agraphia, or Pure Alexia; Surface Dyslexia; Spelling Dyslexia; Deep Dyslexia; Phonological Dyslexia; Literal Alexia; The Agraphias; Preservation of Implicit Understanding in Language Processing.
- The Localization of Language Sites by Positron Emission TomographyThe Localization of Language Sites by Stimulation Mapping; The Localization of Language Processes in Congenitally Deaf Users of Visual Signing; Summary and Conclusions; Further Reading; Chapter 4. A Right-Hemisphere Contribution to Language and a Calculation Deficit; Major Left-Hemisphere Damage in Infancy; Subtotal Left-Hemisphere Damage in Infancy; Major Left-Hemisphere Damage in Adults; Subtotal Left-Hemisphere Damage in Adults; Evidence from Deep Dyslexia; Commissurotomy Studies; Right-Hemisphere Damage in Adults; Acalculia.