Cognitive Neurology: A Clinical Textbook

PART I - ASSESSMENT METHODS; 1. Clinical examination; 2. Neuropsychological testing; 3. Neuroimaging and other ancillary techniques; PART II - NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SYNDROMES ASSOCIATED WITH FOCAL BRAIN DAMAGE; Introduction; 4. Language disorders; 5. Apraxia; 6. Spatial disorders; 7. Memory disorders; 8. Neurobehavioural disorders after stroke; 9. Cognitive and behavioural disorders associated with space-occupying lesions; PART III - DEMENTIAS; 10. Differential diagnosis in dementia; 11. Alzheimer's Disease; 12. Frontotemporal lobar dementia; 13. Vascular dementia; 14. Cortical Lewy body disease: dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia; 15. Genetics of dementia; PART IV - COGNITIVE DISORDERS IN OTHER NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISEASES; 16. Cognitive and behavioural disorders following traumatic brain injury; 17. Neuropsychological problems: cognitive and affective disturbances in MS; 18. Neuropsychology of epilepsy; 19. Cognition in schizophrenia; 20. Neurocognition of depression; 21. 'Others' and others: hysteria and the divided self; PART V - TREATMENT ISSUES; 22. Pharmacological treatment; 23. Rehabilitation of cognitive disorders

...a first-rate, informative new book on clinical cognitive neuroscience. Written and edited by a cohort of internationally recongized clinician-scientists, this book is an outstanding contribution to the field. A brilliant new book...and a must read for anyone interested in neuropsychiatriy and behavioural neurology. Michael Schrift, DO, MA, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine