Baddeley / Kopelman / Wilson The Essential Handbook of Memory Disorders for Clinicians

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-470-09142-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, E-Book

This concise version of the Handbook of Memory Disorders isa selection of chapters from the original volume that have beenchosen with the busy practitioner in mind. The EssentialHandbook provides individual clinicians and students with thoseparts the editors consider most relevant and useful on a day-to-daybasis, as a portable adjunct to the more comprehensiveHandbook.
(Handbook of Memory Disorders - 047 149819X)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baddeley, Alan D.

Kopelman, Michael

Wilson, Barbara A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Chapter 1: The Psychology of Memory (Alan D. Baddeley).
Chapter 2: The Amnesic Syndrome: Overview and Subtypes (MargaretO' Connor and Mieke Verfaellie).
Chapter 3: Posttraumatic Amnesia and Residual Memory Deficitafter Closed Head Injury (Harvey S. Levin and Gerri Hanten).
Chapter 4: Psychogenic Amnesia (Michael D. Kopelman).
Chapter 5: Developmental Amnesias and Acquired Amnesias ofChildhood (Christine M. Temple).
Chapter 6: The Memory Deficit in Alzheimer's Disease(James T. Becker and Amy A. Overman).
Chapter 7: Memory Disorders in Subcortical Dementia (JasonBrandt and Cynthia A. Munro).
Chapter 8: Assessment of Memory Disorders (Barbara A.Wilson).
Chapter 9: Separating Memory from Other Cognitive Disorders(Diane B. Howieson and Muriel D. Lezak).
Chapter 10: Management and Remediation of Memory Problems inBrain-injured Adults (Barbara A. Wilson).
Chapter 11: Assessment and Management of Memory Problems inChildren (Judith A. Middleton).
Chapter 12: Assessment and Intervention in Dementia of AlzheimerType (Linda Clare).
Chapter 13: Reducing the Impact of Cognitive Impairment inDementia (Bob Woods).
Chapter 14: External Memory Aids and Computers in MemoryRehabilitation (Narinder Kapur, Elizabeth L. Glisky and Barbara A.Wilson).
Chapter 15: Emotional and Social Consequences of MemoryDisorders (Robyn L. Tate).
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Alan D. Baddeley, Department of Psychology, University ofYork, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Alan Baddeley was Director of the Medical Research CouncilApplied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, UK for over 20 years. He isnow at the University of York. He is a cognitive psychologist withbroad interests in the functioning of human memory under bothnormal conditions and conditions of brain damage and stress.
Michael D. Kopelman, Neuropsychiatry and MemoryDisorders Clinic, St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road,London SE1 7EH, UK
Michael Kopelman is Professor of Neuropsychiatry in theInstitute of Psychiatry based at St Thomas' Hospital,King's College, London. He holds qualifications in bothneuropsychiatry and neuropsychology, and has particular interestand expertise in a wide range of memory disorders, bothneurological and psychogenic. He runs a neuropsychiatry and memorydisorders clinic at St Thomas's Hospital.
Barbara A. Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain SciencesUnit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK
Barbara Wilson is a senior scientist at the MRC Cognition andBrain Sciences Unit and is Director of Research at the OliverZangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Ely, UK. Sheis a clinical psychologist with particular interests in the impactof neuropsychological memory deficits on everyday functioning andimproving methods of neurorehabilitation. She was awarded an OBE in1998 for services to medical rehabilitation, and is Editor-in-Chiefof the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.