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Book SynopsisThis book is written for the clinician, students, and practitioners of neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and behavioral neurology. It has been my intent throughout to present a synthesis of ideas and research findings. I have reviewed thousands of articles and research reports and have drawn extensively from diverse sources in philosophy, psychol ogy, neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychiatry, physiology, and neuroanatomy in order to produce this text. Of course I have also drawn from my own experience as a clinician and research scientist in preparing this work and in this regard some of my own biases and interests are represented. I have long sought to understand the human mind and the phenomena we experience as conscious awareness. After many years of studying a variety of Western and Eastern psychologists and philosophers, including the Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophica
Table of Contents1 The Right Cerebral Hemisphere: Emotion, Music, Visual—Spatial Skills, Body Image, Dreams, and Awareness.- 2 The Left Cerebral Hemisphere: Aphasia, Alexia, Agraphia, Agnosia, Apraxia, Language, and Thought.- 3 The Limbic System: Emotion, Laterality, and Unconscious Mind.- 4 The Frontal Lobes: Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology.- 5 The Parietal Lobes.- 6 The Occipital Lobe.- 7 The Temporal Lobes.- 8 Cerebral and Cranial Trauma: Anatomy and Pathophysiology of Mild, Moderate, and Severe Head Injury.- 9 Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease.- 10 Cerebral Neoplasms.
