Bøger i Brain, Behaviour and Cognition serien

This book addresses key issues in child neuropsychology, with particular relevance for clinical practice.

Provides an overview of research on anomia. Beginning with an overview of psycholinguistic research on normal word retrieval as well as the influential cognitive models of naming, this book reviews the major forms of anomia. Neuroanatomical aspects, clinical assessment, and therapeutic approaches are also reviewed and evaluated.

The long-held belief that acquired aphasia in children is primarily of the non-fluent type has been challenged in recent years. This book discusses language problems arising from cerebro-vascular accidents occurring in childhood, and from other

The book begins by considering the epidemiology, causes and structural neuropathology of closed head injury, considers the impact of closed head injury and finally details the outcome, mechanisms for recovery and rehabilitation.

This book brings the reader up to date with the latest advances in understanding spatial neglect, insofar as this contributes to better clinical assessment, management and treatment.

Surveys the history of aphasia from its earliest mentions in ancient times, to the turn of the millennium in 2000. This book traces the development of theory about and understanding of aphasia, and the role of significant individuals in this history.

This book focuses on the way in which alcohol affects the brain, with the aim of describing advances in the neuropsychology of alcoholism, making this work accessible to clinicians who treat people with alcohol-related problems.

Brings together in one volume further important case investigations that have shaped the way we think about the relationships between brain, behaviour and cognition.

Perspectives on Agrammatism provides an up-to-date overview of research that has been done over the past two decades. With contributions from the most influential aphasiologists from Europe and the United States, it provides an indispensible reference for students and academics in the field of language disorders.

This book brings together a group of leading academics and practicing clinicians to provide an overview of the nature of NBD, considering how it translates into social handicap, and what can be done to address associated problems, through social and behavioural rehabilitation, vocational training, and family education.

This book brings together a group of leading academics and practicing clinicians to provide an overview of the nature of NBD, considering how it translates into social handicap, and what can be done to address associated problems, through social and behavioural rehabilitation, vocational training, and family education.

Primary progressive aphasia is a type of dementia that progressively impairs language abilities and may eventually affect other aspects of thinking, movement and/or personality. For the person with primary progressive aphasia, these problems have a profound effect on their ability to communicate, which in turn impacts their relationships, social networks and ability to participate in everyday activities that depend on communication. This book provides an up-to-date survey of research relevant to the clinical care of people with primary progressive aphasia. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Aphasiology.

Primary progressive aphasia is a type of dementia that progressively impairs language abilities and may eventually affect other aspects of thinking, movement and/or personality. For the person with primary progressive aphasia, these problems have a profound effect on their ability to communicate, which in turn impacts their relationships, social networks and ability to participate in everyday activities that depend on communication. This book provides an up-to-date survey of research relevant to the clinical care of people with primary progressive aphasia. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Aphasiology.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can seriously disrupt the social and communication skills that are basic requirements for everyday life. It is the loss of these interpersonal skills that can be the most devastating for people with TBI and their families. Although there are many books that focus upon TBI, none focus on communication and communication skills specifically.　 This book fills this important gap in the literature and provides information ranging from a broad overview of the nature of pathology following TBI and its effects on cognition and behaviour, through to the latest evidence about ways to assess and treat social and communication disorders.　 Much has changed in the field of communication disorders and TBI since the first edition of this book was published in 1999. There have been advances in neuroimaging, providing more accurate understanding of how the brain is damaged in TBI and also insights into its repair. There has been a burgeoning interest in social cognition, and advances in how communication is conceptualized, with a particular focus on the role of how context facilitates or impedes communicative ability. Most importantly, much has changed in the arena of rehabilitation. There is now a growing evidence base of treatments aimed at improving communication problems following TBI, new resources for accessing this information and renewed interest in different kinds of methods for demonstrating treatment effects. Bringing together a range of expert international researchers interested in understanding the nature and treatment of TBI this book covers topics from understanding how the brain damage occurs, how it affects social and communication skills and how these problems might be treated. As such it will be of great interest to clinicians, postgraduate and undergraduate students and researchers in neuropsychology, speech and language pathology.

This book fills this important gap in the literature and provides information ranging from a broad overview of the nature of pathology following TBI and its effects on cognition and behaviour, through to the latest evidence about ways to assess and treat social and communication disorders.

Draws together the neuropsychological literature on category-specific impairments, with research on how children develop knowledge about different categories, functional brain imaging work and computational models of object recognition and semantic memory. This book is suitable for advanced undergraduates and researchers.

This book offers a comprehensive, contemporary and scholarly account of transcortical aphasias by combing valuable information upon cognitive neuro psychology, neuroimaging and other language functions among transcortical aphasias patients.

Perspectives on Agrammatism provides an up-to-date overview of research that has been done over the past two decades. With contributions from the most influential aphasiologists from Europe and the United States, it provides an indispensible reference for students and academics in the field of language disorders.

Covering all aspects of unilateral neglect, the contents of this book range from an historical survey of research to date, through the nature and anatomical bases of neglect and on to review contemporary theories on the subject.

Addresses the key questions in modern schizophrenia research including how abnormalities of the brain produce the characteristic signs and symptoms of this most severe and mysterious mental malady, where these abnormalities are, and how they develop.

A survey of the main behavioural characteristics or symptoms of aphasia, which presents a series of essays on the history and current developments in this field of neuropsychological research. Contributors discuss recovery, rehabilitation and other contemporary issues.

Brings together in one volume further important case investigations that have shaped the way we think about the relationships between brain, behaviour and cognition.

A collection of papers by various authors working in the area of apraxia, almost exclusively with limb aparaxia specifically.

This book brings together discussion of the classic cases which have shaped the way we think about the relationships between brain, behaviour and cognition.

The text of this book is organized around seven key cognitive areas, within which the developmental disorders are addressed in turn: language, memory, perception, reading, spelling, arithmetic and executive skills.