Rövid leírás:
Fractured Minds is an engaging text that introduces the student, health professional, and lay reader to clinical neuropsychology. Two introductory chapters precede 17 chapters that each focus on a specific disorder. Topics range from common disorders such as traumatic brain injury and dementia, to rare disorders such as autopagnosia, and each chapter includes a theory section an a detailed case study. The second edition adds new chapters on multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease, and chapters retained from the first edition have been revised to reflect current research and clinical advances.
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Hosszú leírás:
Fractured Minds introduces the reader to clinical neuropsychology through vivid case descriptions of adults who have suffered brain damage. At one level, this is a book about the courage, humour, and determination to triumph over illness and disability that many „ordinary people” demonstrate when coping with the extraordinary stress of a brain disorder. On another level, it is a well-referenced and up-to-date textbook that provides a holistic view of the practice of clinical neuropsychology. Included are reader-friendly descriptions and explanations of a wide range of neurological disorders and neuroscientific concepts.
Two introductory chapters are followed by 17 chapters that each focus on a specific disorder and include research, clinical assessment, rehabilitation, and a detailed case study. Disorders range across the full spectrum from common ones such as traumatic brain injury and dementia, to rare disorders such as autopagnosia. Each of the 16 chapters retained from the first edition has been revised to reflect current research and clinical advances. Three new chapters on multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease incorporate discussion of important current topics such as genetically-transmitted diseases, genetic counselling, gene transplantation, functional neurosurgery, and the complex ethical issues that go hand-in-hand with these new techniques.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction to clinical neuropsychology
The neuropsychological assessment
Marooned in the moment: H. M., A case of global America
Out of control: the consequences and treatment of epilepsy
The breakdown of language: case studies of aphasia
A body in the mind: a case of autopagnosia
Out of mind, out of sight: a case of hemineglect
Vision without knowledge: visual object agnosia and prosopagnosia
The impaired executive: a case of frontal-lobe dysfunction
Beating the odds: severe head injury and the importance of ongoing rehabilitation
The unseen injury: minor closed head injury
Explosions in the mind: a case of subarachnoid hemorrhage
Twenty years too late: organic solvent neurotoxicity
Tomorrow is another day: living with multiple sclerosis
Mind over matter: coping with Parkinson’s Disease
Huntington’s disease: a family challenged
Dementia: a family tragedy
Split brain, split mind? Case L. B.
A whole life with half a brain: Kate’s story
