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Researchers who were influenced by Dr. Nelson Butters contribute articles to this volume to honor him and his thirty-year career. Their contributions reflect how Dr. Butters impacted their current work and offer an historical account of research theory and paradigmatic shifts within the field of cognitive neuropsychology. Researchers, clinicians, and students working in the neurosciences will appreciate this volume.

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Author:   Laird S. Cermak
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9781489911988

ISBN 10:   1489911987
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   12 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Recovery of Function After Serial Lesions of Prefrontal Cortex in the Rhesus Monkey: A Retrospective.- 2. Comparative Neuropsychology: Brain Functions in Nonhuman Primates and Human Neurobehavioral Disorders.- 3. Processing Deficits of Amnesic Patients: Nearly Full Cycle?.- 4. Verbal Priming and Semantic Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease: Degraded Representation or Impaired Activation?.- 5. Semantic Memory Deficits Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.- 6. Exploring Disorders of Semantic Memory.- 7. Amnesia, Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease.- 8. Identification of Neuropsychologically Defined Subgroups of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients.- 9. Contributions of Cognitive Psychology to the Study of Impaired Memory and Attention.- 10. Cognitive Investigations in Huntington’s Disease.- 11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Memory Disorders.- 12. The Mammillary Bodies Revisited: Their Role in Human Memory Functioning.- 13. Functioning and Anatomical Specificity of Frontal Lobe Functions.- 14. Recovery of Function After Focal Cerebral Insult: A Pet Activation Study.- 15. Remote Memory in Retrospect.- 16. The Clinical Assessment of Memory Disorders.- 17. Differential Neuropsychology: Identifying Risk Factors for Cognitive Dysfunction in Medically Ill Patients.- 18. Procedural Memory and Rehabilitation.- 19. Psychodynamic Phenomena, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience.- 20. Applying the Neuropsychology of Memory Disorders to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.- 21 Organismic-Developmental Theory and Neuropsychological Research.- 22. Growing up in Neuropsychology.- Bibliography of Nelson Butters, Ph.D..

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