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By Julien Bogousslavsky, Franois Boller, Makoto Iwata, J. Bogousslavsky
Through 18 essays, this book traces the history of neuropsychology, showing the origin and establishment of present concepts used in practice. Psychologists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, and other specialists from the US, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and Europe discuss the of discovery of cerebral specialization; the introduction of emotions and behavior in the assessment of neurological patients; Pierre Marie’s “zone lenticulaire”; Gogi aphasia and its relation with semantic dementia; alexia and agraphia; the early history of amnesia; hemineglect and attentional dysfunction; the history of anosognosia, amusia, “frontal” syndromes and executive dysfunction, subcortical cognitive impairment, dementia, and neuropsychological assessment; hallucinations, delusions, and confabulations; early case descriptions of developmental cognitive deficits; the historical path from the description of cognitive recovery to formal neuropsychological rehabilitation; and famous neuropsychologists from the 19th and 20th century. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Product Details
- Publisher : S Karger Ag; 1st edition (May 1, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 250 pages
- ISBN-10 : 3318064629
- ISBN-13 : 978-3318064629
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