Topics in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology
：With Key References
Publication subTitle ：With Key References
Author： Hier Daniel B.;Gorelick Philip B;Shindler Andrea Gellin
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781483192710
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780409951653
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780409951653
Subject： R338.2 central nervous system physiology
Keyword： 临床医学,内科学
Language： ENG
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Description
Topics in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology provides information pertinent to neuropsychology and behavioral neurology. This book serves as a guide to those caring for patients with disorders of higher cortical function.
Organized into 18 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the classes of disorders of higher cortical function according to major behavioral disturbance. This text then presents the various classification schemes for aphasic syndromes. Other chapters consider the multidimensional process of the analysis of various speech disorders, including dysprosody, dysarthria, hysteria, anomia, and aphasia. This book discusses as well the various forms of alexia, including pure alexia, alexia, alexia with agraphia, and frontal alexia. The final chapter deals with stroke and other brain disorders.
This book is a valuable resource for neurologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, neurology residents, speech pathologists, and rehabilitation medicine specialists. Readers who are interested in the study of the disorders of the higher cortical function will also find this book useful.
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