Description
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 2000, is the first clinical reference work to address specifically the relationship of focal brain dysfunction to behavioural and emotional disorders. In it a worldwide team of neuroscientists and clinicians examines these links and the current state of research, providing the basis for improved patient care.
Trade Review'It is exhaustive and makes us very conscious that a focal brain lesion affects not only our faculties of speaking, thinking and moving, but also our emotional reactions… this book is a 'must' for professionals or medical students interested in the relationships between the brain and behavioral disorders.' European Neurology
'This book is an excellent reference work for a wide variety of family practitioners, psychiatrists, physicians and neurologists. The subject is extremely difficult and the book is unique in that the editors and many of the authors are neurologists.' JARD
'… there is no comparable text that covers this important topic.' British Journal of Psychiatry
'The overall standard of production is first-rate … the editors seem to have found a real gap in the current book market. Their book deserves to be widely read and should be a definitive reference source for some time.' British Journal of Neurosurgery
'… a valuable survey of current research.' Neuroradiology
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; 1. Emotional consequences of focal brain lesions: an overview Jeffrey Cummings and Julien Bogousslavsky; 2. The evaluation of mood and behavior in patients with focal brain lesions David Desmond; 3. Methodological issues in studying secondary mood disorders Jordan Grafman and Deborah Warden; 4. Disorders of behavior and mood in focal brain lesion Florence Ghika-Schmid and Julien Bogousslavsky; 5. Depression and lesion location in stroke Robert Robinson; 6. Mood and behavior in disorders of basal ganglia Joseph Ghika; 7. Mania and manic-like disorders Sergio Starkstein and Facundo Manes; 8. Behavioral and emotional changes after focal frontal lobe damage Paul Eslinger and Laszlo Geder; 9. Abulia, apathy, athymhormia: toward a neurology of human motivation Michel Habib; 10. Thalmic behavioral syndrome Atsushi Yamadori; 11. Obsessive compulsive disorders in association with focal brain lesions F. Etcharry-Boux and F. Dubas; 12. Emotional dysprosody and similar dysfunctions Diana Van Lancker and Caterina Breitenstein; 13. Temporal lobe behavioral syndromes Serge Bakchine; 14. Neural correlates of violent behavior Daniel Tranel; 15. Focal lesions and psychosis Terri Edwards-Lee and Jeffrey Cummings; 16. Alterations in sexual behavior following focal brain injury John Ringman and Jeffrey Cummings; 17. Anosognosia Patrik Vuilleumier; 18. Acute confusional states and delirium Louis Caplan; Index.
