Topics in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology

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.

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 Aprosody4. 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 Dementia9. 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 Dyscalculia15. 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