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Amnesia : clinical, psychological and medicolegal aspects /
Amnesia: Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects, 2nd Edition explores the clinical, psychological, and medicolegal aspects of amnesia. Experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome are presented and memory disorders associated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are described. The r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Butterworths,
1977.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Amnesia: Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects; Copyright Page; Foreword to First Edition; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface to Second Edition; Preface to First Edition; Chapter 1. Experimental Studies of theOrganic Amnesic Syndrome; INTRODUCTION; SHORT-TERM MEMORY; ENCODING AND ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS; SPEED OF FORGETTING; AMNESIA OR AMNESIAS?; CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS; Acknowledgement; Chapter 2. Amnesia in Cerebral Disease; INTRODUCTION; TRANSIENT AMNESIC STATES; PERSISTENT ABNORMALITIES OF MEMORY; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 3. Transient Global Amnesia
- THE CLINICAL PICTUREDISCUSSION; ADDENDUM; Chapter 4. The Amnesic Syndrome; DISCUSSION; POSTSCRIPT; Acknowledgements; Chapter 5. Traumatic Amnesia; ASSESSMENT OF LENGTH OF AMNESIAS; VARIETIES OF P.T.A.; PARAMNESIA AND CONFABULATION; TRAUMATIC AUTOMATISM; RETROGRADE AMNESIAS; RESIDUAL MEMORY DEFECT; AMNESIAS AFTER PENETRATING BRAIN WOUNDS; Chapter 6. Temporal Lobe Amnesia; INTRODUCTION; LATER EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF H.M. ILLUSTRATINGTHE LONG-TERM MEMORY IMPAIRMENT; FURTHER CASES OF GLOBAL AMNESIA ASSOCIATED WITHTEMPORAL LOBE PATHOLOGY; RESIDUAL LEARNING CAPACITY IN AMNESIA
- TEMPORAL LOBE PATHOLOGY ASSOCIATED WITH AMNESIAWHAT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL DEFICIT IN TEMPORAL LOBEAMNESIA?; MATERIAL SPECIFIC MEMORY LOSS ASSOCIATED WITHUNILATERAL TEMPORAL LOBE DYSFUNCTION; CONCLUSION; Acknowledgement; Chapter 7 Memory Disorders Associated with Electroconvulsive Therapy; ASSESSMENT OF MEMORY; ASPECTS OF MEMORY AFFECTED BY BILATERAL ECT; VARIABLES AFFECTING MEMORY AFTER ECT; COMPARISON BETWEEN MEMORY DISORDERSFOLLOWING ECT AND THOSE IN OTHER CONDITIONS; THE NATURE OF MEMORY AS SEEN THROUGH ITSBREAKDOWN AFTER ECT; SUMMARY; Chapter 8. Neuropathology of Amnesic States
- THE MAMMILLARY BODIES AND THE THALAMITHE HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION; AGEING AND THE PRESENILE DEMENTIAS; NEUROANATOMICAL ASPECTS; DISCUSSION; Chapter 9. Psychogenic Loss of Memory; FUGUES AND LOSS OF MEMORY; DUAL AND MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES; THE GANSER STATE; PROLONGED RETROGRADE AMNESIA AFTER INTENSIVE ECT; SLIPS OF THE TONGUE AND AMNESIA FOR WORD-FINDING; CONCLUSION; Acknowledgement; Chapter 10. Amnesia : A PsychoanalyticViewpoint; INTRODUCTION; FREUD ON MEMORY; THE CONCEPT OF REPRESSION; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 11. Medicolegal Aspectsof Amnesia; AMNESIA AS A MEDICAL CONDITION
- AMNESIA, AUTOMATISM AND INVOLUNTARY CONDUCTIN THE CRIMINAL LAWAMNESIA AND FITNESS TO PLEAD; AMNESIA IN CIVIL ACTIONS; APPENDIX; References; Index