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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.
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.
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."
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