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Summary
Author Biography
J. Graham Beaumont, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS, is Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, London, United Kingdom. Widely published, Professor Beaumont is a past Honorary General Secretary of the British Psychological Society and Chair of the Division of Neuropsychology, and holds an Honorary Chair at Roehampton University, London. He was formerly a Reader and Associate Dean for Combined Science at the University of Leicester and Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at Swansea University.
Table of Contents
Introduction | |
The Discipline of Neuropsychology | p. 3 |
What Is Neuropsychology? | p. 3 |
Branches of Neuropsychology | p. 4 |
Comparative Neuropsychology | p. 5 |
Conceptual Issues | p. 6 |
Historical Background | p. 8 |
Clinical Neuropsychology | p. 11 |
Experimental Neuropsychology | p. 14 |
Cognitive Neuropsychology | p. 17 |
The Fringe | p. 18 |
The Plan of This Book | p. 19 |
Conclusion | p. 20 |
The Structure of the Central Nervous System | p. 22 |
Terminology | p. 23 |
The Environment of the CNS | p. 24 |
The Spinal Cord | p. 26 |
Divisions of the Brain | p. 27 |
The Brain Stem | p. 29 |
The Cerebellum | p. 31 |
The Diencephalon-The Subcortical Forebrain | p. 31 |
The Telencephalon-The Cerebral Cortex | p. 35 |
Conclusion | p. 40 |
Clinical Studies | |
The Frontal Lobes | p. 45 |
Some Methodological Issues | p. 45 |
Intelligence | p. 48 |
Specific Functions | p. 51 |
The Motor and Premotor Cortex | p. 52 |
The Prefrontal Cortex | p. 54 |
Broca's Area | p. 61 |
The Orbital Cortex | p. 61 |
Modern Theories of Frontal Lobe Function | p. 64 |
Lateralization of the Frontal Lobe | p. 67 |
Conclusion | p. 68 |
The Temporal Lobes | p. 72 |
Audition | p. 74 |
Vision | p. 78 |
Attention | p. 78 |
Memory | p. 80 |
Personality | p. 89 |
Conclusion | p. 91 |
The Parietal Lobes | p. 95 |
Somatosensory Perception | p. 96 |
Tactile Perception and Body Sense | p. 98 |
Spatial Orientation | p. 101 |
Spatial Neglect | p. 104 |
Symbolic Syntheses | p. 108 |
Apraxia | p. 109 |
Intersensory Association | p. 113 |
Short-Term Memory | p. 113 |
Gerstmann Syndrome | p. 113 |
Language | p. 114 |
Conclusion | p. 114 |
The Occipital Lobes | p. 118 |
Anatomical Divisions | p. 118 |
Basic Visual Functions | p. 121 |
Visual Perceptual Functions | p. 123 |
Blindsight | p. 127 |
Visual Prostheses | p. 128 |
Conclusion | p. 129 |
Integration of Cortical Functions | p. 130 |
Language | p. 134 |
The Lateralization of Language | p. 134 |
Varieties of Aphasia | p. 136 |
Anatomical Structures | p. 139 |
The Forms of Aphasia | p. 141 |
Aphasia Assessment | p. 150 |
The Rehabilitation of Aphasics | p. 151 |
Conclusion | p. 153 |
Degenerative Diseases and Profound Brain Injury | p. 159 |
Multiple Sclerosis | p. 160 |
Parkinson's Disease | p. 162 |
Huntington's Disease | p. 165 |
Profound Brain Injury | p. 167 |
The Subcortex and Psychosurgery | p. 180 |
Neurosurgery | p. 182 |
Psychosurgery | p. 185 |
Conclusion | p. 191 |
Experimental Studies | |
Split Brains and Dual Minds | p. 199 |
The Commissurotomy Operation and the Patients | p. 200 |
The Effects of Commissurotomy | p. 202 |
Consciousness Divided? | p. 211 |
Conclusion | p. 215 |
Divided Visual Field Studies | p. 220 |
The Technique | p. 221 |
The Evidence | p. 224 |
The Theories | p. 234 |
Conclusion | p. 239 |
Dichotic Listening | p. 245 |
The Technique | p. 245 |
Lateral Ear Asymmetries | p. 247 |
Attention | p. 252 |
An Index of Lateralization | p. 255 |
Conclusion | p. 256 |
Other Methods in Experimental Neuropsychology | p. 257 |
Electrophysiology and Imaging | p. 263 |
Electrophysiology | p. 263 |
Minor Physiological Techniques | p. 279 |
Brain Imaging | p. 280 |
Conclusion | p. 285 |
Individual Differences: Gender and Handedness | p. 292 |
Gender Differences in Cerebral Organization | p. 292 |
Handedness | p. 297 |
Conclusion | p. 309 |
Applications | |
Neuropsychological Practice | p. 317 |
Testing for Brain Damage | p. 318 |
The Assessment of Specific Functions | p. 323 |
Assessment in Practice | p. 329 |
Rehabilitation | p. 332 |
Conclusion | p. 336 |
Neuropsychiatry and Neuropsychology | p. 340 |
Neuropsychiatry | p. 341 |
Functional States and Laterality | p. 345 |
Theoretical Models | p. 350 |
Conclusion | p. 354 |
Author Index | p. 360 |
Subject Index | p. 370 |
Index of Tests and Procedures | p. 380 |
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