This book provides an overview of attentional impairments in brain-damaged patients from both clinical and neuroscientific perspectives, and aims to offer a comprehensive, succinct treatment of these topics useful to both clinicians and scholars. A main focus of the book concerns left visual neglect, a dramatic but often overlooked consequence of right hemisphere damage, usually of vascular origin, but also resulting from other causes such as neurodegenerative conditions. The study of neglect offers a key to understand the brain's functioning at the level of large-scale networks, and not only based on discrete anatomical structures. Patients are often unaware of their deficits (anosognosia), and often obstinately deny being hemiplegic. Diagnosis is important because neglect predicts poor functional outcome in stroke. Moreover, effective rehabilitation strategies are available, and there are promising possibilities for pharmacological treatments. Attention Disorders After Right Brain Damage is aimed at clinical neurologists, medics in physical medicine and rehabilitation, clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists. It will also be useful for graduate students and medical students who wish to understand the topic of attention systems and improve their knowledge of the neurocognitive mechanisms of attentional deficits. In addition, clinical researchers in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience will find in this book an up to date overview of current research dealing with the attention systems of the human brain.

This book provides an overview of attentional impairments in brain-damaged patients from both clinical and neuroscientific perspectives, and aims to offer a comprehensive, succinct treatment of these topics useful to both clinicians and scholars. A main focus of the book concerns left visual neglect, a dramatic but often overlooked consequence of right hemisphere damage, usually of vascular origin, but also resulting from other causes such as neurodegenerative conditions. The study of neglect offers a key to understand the brain's functioning at the level of large-scale networks, and not only based on discrete anatomical structures. Patients are often unaware of their deficits (anosognosia), and often obstinately deny being hemiplegic. Diagnosis is important because neglect predicts poor functional outcome in stroke. Moreover, effective rehabilitation strategies are available, and there are promising possibilities for pharmacological treatments. Attention Disorders After Right Brain Damage is aimed at clinical neurologists, medics in physical medicine and rehabilitation, clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists. It will also be useful for graduate students and medical students who wish to understand the topic of attention systems and improve their knowledge of the neurocognitive mechanisms of attentional deficits. In addition, clinical researchers in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience will find in this book an up to date overview of current research dealing with the attention systems of the human brain.

The Temporal Lobe, Volume 187 covers the exponential growth of studies on the relationships between brain and language/cognition, many of which involved the temporal lobe. This volume summarizes research on the anatomy and function of the temporal lobe under both normal and pathological conditions. In addition, it discusses the interactions of the temporal lobe with other brain structures. The book highlights the role of the temporal lobe in language processing as well as vision, object, face recognition and processing. The book also discusses the temporal lobe's role in reading, speech and the processing of color, music, action and memory. Temporal lobe disorders, assessments and treatments are also covered, including encephalitis, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Korsakov's syndrome, and more.

Questo libro presenta una panoramica su varie condizioni cliniche che riguardano la consapevolezza, il controllo e le reazioni emotive anomale dei pazienti con danno cerebrale rispetto al proprio corpo. Sebbene la relazione con i sistemi attentivi sia meno chiara in confronto ad altri disturbi, anche queste condizioni sono tipiche dei pazienti con danni dell'emisfero destro.

Questo volume propone una panoramica sui processi attenzionali e le relative basi neurali nel cervello umano. L'attenzione e concepita come un insieme eterogeneo di processi, che ci consente di selezionare le fonti esterne ed interne di informazione sulla base delle quali agire, e di mettere in atto un comportamento che tenga conto sia dei nostri obiettivi, sia della possibilita che accadano eventi inaspettati. Il funzionamento integrato di reti cerebrali fronto-parietali, con particolari differenze inter-emisferiche che spesso favoriscono l'emisfero destro, e cruciale per i processi attentivi.

La negligenza spaziale e una conseguenza drammatica ma relativamente poco conosciuta delle lesioni dell'emisfero cerebrale destro. I pazienti negligenti non prestano attenzione a quanto avviene alla loro sinistra, sono spesso inconsapevoli dei loro deficit (anosognosia), e possono negare ostinatamente di essere emiplegici. La diagnosi di negligenza e importante, perche la sua presenza predice uno scarso recupero funzionale del paziente; d'altra parte, esistono efficaci tecniche di riabilitazione. Questo volume presenta i principali segni clinici associati alla negligenza spaziale, insieme ai test clinici, neuropsicologici ed ecologici utilizzati per la sua diagnosi. L'autore e professore ordinario di Neuropsicologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive all'Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano e Direttore di Ricerca nell'ospedale universitario Pitie-Salpetriere a Parigi, dove si occupa dei meccanismi dell'attenzione umana e delle loro patologie nelle malattie neurologiche."