Mark Sherer • Angelle M. Sander Editors 2014 Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a frequent occurrence affecting approximately 1.7 million persons per year in the United States. Some authors believe that true rates of injury are much higher as persons sustaining mild injuries may not seek medical care and thus may not be captured by […]
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Paolo Bartolomeo 2014 Living in Halved Worlds In a neurological ward, it is frequent to come upon patients who look at objects on their right side with intense interest, while paying no attention to what happens on their left. Left visual neglect is a dramatic but often overlooked consequence of right hemisphere damage, usually of […]
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Alexander Leff • Randi Starrfelt 2014 Diagnosis, Treatment and Theory
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Jaime Gómez-Ramirez 2014 Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems Volume 7 Category Theory and the Hippocampus Manichaeanism or explaining facts based on two opposite poles is a habitual practice in politics and the media today. With this kind of explanation, we always find two clearly separated sides, one is good and the other bad. […]
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Ronald A. Cohen 2014 Attention played a vital role in the historical development of the field of psychology. Early psychologists pondered the nature of attention and attempted to characterize its phenomenology and constituent processes.
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Pamela S. Klonoff 2014 This book emanates from a wholehearted desire to describe and validate the journey of family members with a loved one who has suffered a brain injury. It is a compilation of many years of clinical experience, research, dialogue, and self-reflection about the phenomenological perspective of families.
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Marcelo Merello • Sergio E. Starkstein
Editors
2014
Since the end of the twentieth century, the cognitive and psychiatric comorbidities of movement disorders have received increasing attention. On the other hand, the study of movement disorders in dementia has been relatively neglected. To our knowledge, there are no specific books devoted to clarify the variety, mechanism, and treatment of motor problems in dementia.
Elias Tsakanikos • Jane McCarthy Editors 2014 Research, Practice, and Policy The Handbook of Psychopathology in Intellectual Disability is on a topic that is both timely and mportant. These overlapping problems are also sometimes referred to as dual diagnosis.The focus of this specialty area is on mental health issues and how they are expressed among these […]
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Federico E. Micheli • Peter A. LeWitt Editors 2014 Causes and Management Within the broad categories of neurologic diseases, the abnormal movement chorea (from Greek, choros , and from the Latin, choreus , both meaning dance) belongs among the conditions referred to as movement disorders. The field of movement disorders consists of both hypokinetic and […]
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Sangeetha Menon 2014 Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience Brain, Self, and Consciousness: Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience brings to its readers the view that to unravel what experience entails, is to place brain, self, and consciousness in an integral space. I take no shame or express less confidence in maintaining the absolute existence of the […]
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