Rev. ed. of: Principles of behavioral neurology / [edited by] M-Marsel Mesulam. c1985

Includes bibliographical referencesand index

Behavioral Neuroanatomy: Large-Scale Networks, Association Cortex, Frontal Syndromes, the Limbic System, and Hemispheric Specializations / M.-Marsel Mesulam -- Parts of the Cerebral Cortex -- Motor Association Areas (Premotor Cortex, Supplementary Motor Area, Frontal Eye Fields) -- Neuropsychological Assessment of Mental State / Sandra Weintraub -- General Strategy for the Mental-State Examination and Review of Primary Neurocognitive Domains -- Testing the Elderly and the Diagnosis of Dementia -- Testing Lobes and Hemispheres -- Attentional Networks, Confusional States, and Neglect Syndromes / M.-Marsel Mesulam -- Confusional States as Disorders of the Attentional Matrix -- Biology of the Attentional Matrix -- Neglect Syndromes as Disorders of Spatial Attention -- Right Hemisphere Dominance for Spatial Attention -- Functional Anatomy of Unilateral Neglect -- Dissociations and Subtypes - Is There Parietal Versus Frontal Neglect? -- A Neural Network for the Distribution of Spatial Attention -- Overlap with Other Networks: Eye Movements, Working Memory, and Temporal Expectation -- Causes, Course, and Treatment of Unilateral Neglect and Relationship to Other Components of the Right Hemisphere Syndrome -- Memory and Amnesia / Hans J. Markowitsch -- The Classic Limbic Amnesic Syndrome -- Memory and Its Disorders -- The Anatomical Substrates of Memory -- Memory Rehabilitation -- Aphasia and the Neural Basis of Language / Antonio R. Damasio, Hanna Damasio -- The Aphasias -- Language Impairments Following Damage Outside Classical Language Territories -- Sign Language Aphasia -- The Role of Nondominant Hemisphere Cortices in Language -- Aphasia Management -- Affective Prosody and the Aprosodias / Elliot D. Ross -- Neurology of Prosody -- Neurology of Kinesics -- The Aprosodias -- Clinical Examination of Affective Prosody and Gesture -- Hemispheric Lateralization of Affective

Prosody and Callosal Integration of Language Functions -- Aprosodias in Tone Languages -- Aprosodias, display Behaviors, and Emotional Experience -- Disorders of Complex Visual Processing / Antonio R. Damasio, Daniel Tranel, Matthew Rizzo -- Disorders of Pattern Recognition -- Other Disorders of Face Processing - Disorders of Color Perception -- Other Disorders Related to Color Processing -- Disorders of Spatial Analysis -- Disturbances of Constructional Ability -- Disturbance of the Ability to Dress -- Temporolimbic Epilepsy and Behavior / Donald L. Schomer, Margaret O'Connor, Paul Spiers -- Classification and Definition -- Anatomical Pathophysiology -- Ictal Manifestations of TLE -- Interictal (Long-Term) Associations of TLE -- The Diagnostic Evaluation and Workup -- Treatment -- Neural Substrates of Psychiatric Syndromes / Robert M. Post -- Unipolar and Bipolar Affective Disorders -- Anxiety-Related Disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Autism -- Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia: Clinical and Neurobiological Perspectives / M.-Marsel Mesulam -- Aging and the Human Brain -- The Definition and Differential Diagnosis of Dementia -- Some Clinical Profiles of Behaviorally Focal Primary Dementias -- Alzheimer's Disease - Genetics, Clinical Picture, and Diagnosis -- Plasticity Failure - A Hypothesis for Unifying the Pathogenesis of Plaques and Tangles -- Some Non-A.D. Dementias -- Vascular Dementia [Also Known as Multiinfarct Dementia (MID)] -- Patient Care and Treatment in A.D. and Other Dementias -- Index