Clinical Neuropsychology

by Kenneth M. Heilman (Editor), Edward Valenstein (Editor)

Clinical Neuropsychology comprehensively reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction. Since the third edition appeared in 1993 there have been many advances in the understanding and treatment of neurobehavioral disorders. This edition, like prior editions,
describes the classical signs and symptoms associated with the major behavioral disorders such as aphasia, agraphia, alexia, amnesia, apraxia, neglect, executive disorders and dementia. It also discusses advances in assessing, diagnosing and treating these disorders and it addresses the brain
mechanisms underlying these deficits. A multi-authored text has the advantage of having authorities write about the disorders in which they have expertise. The fourth edition adds new authors and five entirely new chapters on phonologic aspects of language disorders, syntactic aspects of language
disorders, lexical-semantic aspects of language disorders, anosognosia, hallucinations and related conditions. This is the most comprehensive edition of this text to date.
It will be of value to clinicians, investigators, and students from a variety of disciplines, including neurology, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and speech pathology.

Genres: Psychology

744 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 1979

Reviews

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A comprehensive, valuable resource for clinicians that goes into explicit detail about various neurological/neuropsychological syndromes, sometimes to more detail than you really want to know. The number of case studies presented throughout the chapters can also make it a challenge to parcel out the general knowledge you may be looking for.