Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience

The cognitive disorders that follow brain damage are an important source of insights into the neural bases of human thought. This second edition of the widely acclaimed Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience offers state-of-the-art reviews of the patient-based approach to central issues in cognitive neuroscience by leaders in the field.The second edition has been thoroughly updated, with new coverage of methods from imaging to transcranial magnetic stimulation to genetics and topics from plasticity to executive function to mathematical thought. Part I, on the history and methods of cognitive neuroscience and behavioral neurology, includes two new chapters on imaging, one covering the basics of fMRI in normal humans and the other on the functional imaging of brain-damaged patients, as well as updated chapters on electrophysiological methods and computer modeling. Part II, on perception and attention, includes new chapters on visual perception and spatial cognition as well as attention, visual, tactile, and auditory recognition, music perception, body concept, and delusions. Part III, on language, covers many aspects of language processing in adults and children, including reading. Part IV discusses memory and prefrontal function, including semantic memory and executive functions. Part V covers dementias and developmental disorders, among them Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, mental retardation, ADHD, and autism, and includes a chapter on the molecular genetics of cognitive disorders.

ISBN 0262562138   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780262562133 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 908 Publisher MIT Press Ltd   Published in Cambridge, Mass. Imprint MIT Press   Series title Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology S. Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780262561235 Publication date 29 Nov 2005   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2005045102   Width (mm) 203 DEWEY 616.8   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 272

Ch. 1		A historical perspective on cognitive neuroscience by Todd E. Feinberg and Martha J. Farah		3
Ch. 2		Structural imaging of patients in cognitive neuroscience by Hanna Damasio and Antonio R. Damasio		21
Ch. 3		Functional imaging in cognitive neuroscience I : basic principles by Geoffrey Karl Aguirre		35
Ch. 4		Functional imaging in cognitive neuroscience II : imaging patients by Cathy J. Price and Karl J. Friston		47
Ch. 5		Electrophysiological methods, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, in cognitive neuroscience by Leon Y. Deouell and Richard B. Ivry and Robert T. Knight		55
Ch. 6		Studying plasticity in the damaged and normal brain by Albert M. Galaburda and Alvaro Pascual-Leone		85
Ch. 7		Computational modeling of patients in cognitive neuroscience by Martha J. Farah		99
Ch. 8		Visual perception and visual imagery by Martha J. Farah		111
Ch. 9		Visual object agnosia by Martha J. Farah and Todd E. Feinberg		117
Ch. 10		Prosopagnosia by Martha J. Farah		123
Ch. 11		Visuospatial function by Martha J. Farah		127
Ch. 12		Auditory agnosia and amusia by Russell M. Bauer and Carrie R. McDonald		133
Ch. 13		Disorders of body perception and representation by Georg Goldenberg		147
Ch. 14		Neglect I : clinical and anatomical issues by Kenneth M. Heilman and Robert T. Watson and Edward Valenstein		157
Ch. 15		Neglect II : cognitive issues by Anjan CHatterjee and H. Branch Coslett		167
Ch. 16		Aphasia I : clinical and anatomical issues by Michael P. Alexander		181
Ch. 17		Aphasia II : cognitive issues by Eleanor M. Saffran		199
Ch. 18		Aphasia III : rehabilitation by Myrna F. Schwartz and Ruth B. Fink		213
Ch. 19		Aphasia IV : acquired disorders of language in children by Maureen Dennis		229
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"This is a stimulating synthesis of the theory and methodology of cognitive neuroscience and the clinical insights of behavioral neurology. With its concise treatments of a wide range of cognitive disorders, the book provides an invaluable and readable manual for both clinicians and non-clinicians, researchers and practitioners alike." --T. W. Robbins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

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