Brain damage can cause memory to break down in a number of different ways, the analysis of which can illuminate how the intact brain mediates memory processes. After first considering the problems involved in assessing memory, this book provisionally advances a taxonomy of eleme…
Why is the brain important in eating disorders? This ground-breaking new book describes how increasingly sophisticated neuroscientific approaches are revealing much about the role of the brain in eating disorders. Even more importantly, it discusses how underlying brain abnormal…
"Why is it that we can remember exactly where we were when John Kennedy was shot, or when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, or on September 11, 2001? Does what we see, hear, feel, and in other ways experience, especially during times of stress, result in permanent changes t…
In 1895 Freud attempted to join the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis with the neuroscience of the time. He was forced to abandon his project, however, due to the lack of pertinent neuroscientific knowledge available to him. A hundred years on, we now have the relevant data …
In 1895 Freud attempted to join the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis with the neuroscience of the time. He was forced to abandon his project, however, due to the lack of pertinent neuroscientific knowledge available to him. A hundred years on, we now have the relevant data …
Neglect und assoziierte Störungen
by Kerkhoff, Georg, Schmidt, Lena
fromFortschritte der Neuropsychologie
Bei einem Neglect scheint für den Patienten die der Hirnschädigung gegenüberliegende Raum- und Körperhälfte plötzlich nicht mehr zu existieren. Er sieht, hört und fühlt auf dieser Seite nichts mehr, obwohl seine Sinnesorgane intakt sind. Eine Behandlung ist dringend notwendig, w…
Neglect und assoziierte Störungen
by Kerkhoff, Georg, Schmidt, Lena
fromFortschritte der Neuropsychologie
Bei einem Neglect scheint für den Patienten die der Hirnschädigung gegenüberliegende Raum- und Körperhälfte plötzlich nicht mehr zu existieren. Er sieht, hört und fühlt auf dieser Seite nichts mehr, obwohl seine Sinnesorgane intakt sind. Eine Behandlung ist dringend notwendig, w…
"The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity is an in-depth exploration of one of the most mysterious and controversial topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology - namely, the search for the biological basis of the self. The book is a guide to underst…
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