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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Preface
Note to Readers
1. Cerebral Organization
Classification of Disorders of Higher Cortical Function
Cerebral Dominance
Anatomical Asymmetries of the Brain
Left-Handedness
Right-Hemisphere Language Capability
Callosal Syndromes
Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum
2. Aphasia
Classification of Aphasie Syndromes
Comprehension Disorders in Aphasia
Sex and Age Effects on Aphasia Type
Wernicke"s Aphasia
Broca"s Aphasia
Conduction Aphasia
Global Aphasia
Anomic Aphasia
Transcortical Aphasia
Semantic Aphasia
Crossed Aphasia
Aphasia Therapy
3. Speech Disorders
Overview
Anomia and Circumlocution
Paraphasia
Jargon
Dysarthria
Mutism
Cortical Stuttering
Palilalia
Echolalia
Dysprosody and Aprosody
4. Alexia and Agraphia
Major Forms of Alexia
Literal and Verbal Alexia
Deep and Surface Dyslexia
Spatial Dyslexia
Paralexias
Agraphia
5. Apraxia
Overview
Ideomotor Apraxia
Ideational Apraxia
Limb-Kinetic Apraxia
Callosal Apraxia
Oral-Buccal-Lingual Apraxia
6. Agnosia
Overview
Visual Agnosia
Prosopagnosia
Simultanagnosia
Auditory Agnosia
Tactile Agnosia (Astereognosis)
7. Amnesia
Memory Models
Neuroanatomy of Memory
Causes of Amnesia
Transient Global Amnesia
Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
8. Dementia
Overview
Alzheimer"s Disease
Pick"s Disease
Multiinfarct Dementia
Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Parkinson"s Disease
Huntington"s Disease
Subcortical Dementia
9. Childhood Disorders
Overview
Normal Language Acquisition
Delayed Speech Acquisition
Acquired Aphasia in Childhood
Infantile Autism
Developmental Dyslexia
Hyperlexia
Sex Chromosome Aberrations and Learning Disorders
Hyperactivity
Tourette"s Syndrome
10. Visual-Spatial Disorders
Overview
Cortical Blindness and Anton"s Syndrome
Balint"s Syndrome
Achromatopsia
Color Anomia
Metamorphopsia
Optic Aphasia
Palinopsia
Constructional Apraxia
11. Auditory Disorders
Overview
Cortical Deafness
Pure Word Deafness
Auditory Illusions and Hallucinations
12. Frontal Lobe Disorders
Overview
Abulia
Perseveration
Confabulation and Reduplicative Paramnesia
13. Right-Hemisphere Disorders
Overview
Neglect, Extinction, and Hemi-Inattention
Anosognosia
Impersistence
Dressing Apraxia
Loss of Topographical Memory and Disorientation for Place
Disorders of Spatial Localization
14. Left Parietal Disorders
Overview
Gerstmann"s Syndrome
Dyscalculia
15. Disorders of Affect and Emotion
Overview
Hysteria
Human Klüver-Bucy Syndrome
Confusion and Delirium
16. Miscellaneous Disorders
Allesthesia
Amusia
Asymbolia for Pain
Autotopagnosia
Coma
Gesture
Sleep Disorders
Synesthesia
Synkinesia
17. Recovery
Factors Influencing Recovery After Stroke
Mechanisms of Recovery
Recovery from Aphasia and Other Left-Hemisphere Deficits
Recovery from Right-Hemisphere Deficits
18. Stroke and Other Brain Disorders
Classification of Stroke
Cerebral Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis
Cerebral Embolism
Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Lacunes
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Binswanger"s Disease
Head Trauma
Brain Tumors
Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis
Sarcoidosis
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Index