Neurological foundations of cognitive neuroscience /
A review of a broad range of neurobehavioral syndromes from both neurological and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives.Despite dramatic advances in neuroimaging techniques, patient-based analyses of brain disorders continue to offer important insights into the functioning of the normal brain. Brid...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Issues in clinical and cognitive neuropsychology
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | A review of a broad range of neurobehavioral syndromes from both neurological and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives.Despite dramatic advances in neuroimaging techniques, patient-based analyses of brain disorders continue to offer important insights into the functioning of the normal brain. Bridging the gap between the work of neurologists studying clinical disorders and neuroscientists studying the neural mechanisms underlying normal cognition, this book reviews classical neurobehavioral syndromes from both neurological and cognitive scientific perspectives.The contributors are all practicing neurologists who also conduct cognitive neuroscience research. Each chapter begins with a case study, describing the patient's symptoms and the cognitive processes involved. The clinical descriptions are followed by historical background on the neurobehavioral syndromes and discussion of the methods used to understand the underlying neural mechanisms. In their attempts to reconcile conflicting data derived from different methodologies, many of the authors shed new light on the cognitive mechanisms they discuss. The syndromes include neglect, Balint's syndrome, amnesia, semantic dementia, topographical disorientation, acquired dyslexia, acalculia, transcortical motor aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia, apraxia, and lateral prefrontal syndrome. |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780262271103 0262271109 0585446571 9780585446578 9780262042093 0262042096 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/4948.001.0001 |