Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology: An Evolutionary Perspective

✍ Scribed by Michael Hoffmann (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This ground breaking title presents the many different neurologic syndromes and vastly expanding data in the brain sciences from an evolutionary, or neuro-archeological, perspective, as well as a clinical one. The neuro-archeological perspective offers a more thorough picture of the field – providing hindsight that leads to great insight and foresight. It thus provides the reader with the core foundational aspects of many perplexing neurologic syndromes. Authored by a noted authority in cognitive neurology and including ample tables, diagrams and images, the book covers the full range of behavioral neurological, psychological and neuropsychiatric syndromes, as well as their underlying disease states, relevant neuropsychological tests and contemporary neuroimaging, both structural and functional. The evolutionary approach offers a comprehensive, novel, and completely updated overview of each topic. An invaluable title unlike any other in the field, Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology: An Evolutionary Perspective is a landmark resource and will be of great interest to neurologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and trainees in all fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Cognitive Archeology, Cognitive Neurology, and the Unraveling of the Connectome: Divulging Brain Function from Fractured Skulls and Fractured Minds....Pages 11-34
Neurochemistry....Pages 35-49
Vision: Elementary and Complex Visual Processing....Pages 51-82
Temporal Lobe Syndromes....Pages 83-97
Memory Syndromes....Pages 99-130
Left Hemisphere Syndromes: Apraxias....Pages 131-144
Parietal Lobe Syndromes....Pages 145-156
Right Hemisphere Syndromes....Pages 157-186
Language, Aphasias, and Related Disorders....Pages 187-219
Acquired Cultural Circuits....Pages 221-246
Frontal System Syndromes....Pages 247-295
Neuroimaging and Treatments Perspectives....Pages 297-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-326

✦ Subjects

Neurology;Psychiatry;Neurosciences