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A review of current developments in cognitive neuroscience that integrates data from behavioural, imaging, and genetic studies of patients with research-oriented cognitive theories. The cognitive disorders that follow brain damage are an important source of insights into the neural bases of human thought. This second edition of the widely acclaimed Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience offers state-of-the-art reviews of the patient-based approach to central issues in cognitive neuroscience by leaders in the field. The second edition has been thoroughly updated, with new coverage of methods from imaging to transcranial magnetic stimulation to genetics and topics from plasticity to executive function to mathematical thought. Part I. on the history and methods of cognitive neuroscience and behavioural neurology, includes two new chapters on imaging, one covering the basics of fMRI in normal humans and the other on the functional imaging of brain-damaged patients, as well as updated chapters on electrophysiological methods and computer modelling. Part II. on perception and attention, includes new chapters on visual perception and spatial cognition as well as attention, visu Part III. on language, covers many aspects of language processing in adults and children, including reading. Part IV discusses memory and prefrontal function, including semantic memory and executive functions. Part V covers dementias and developmental disorders, among them Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, mental retardation, ADHD, and autism, and includes a chapter on the molecular genetics of cognitive disorders.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #658460 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 504 pages

About the Author
Martha J. Farah is Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Visual Agnosia (second edition, MIT Press, 2004). Todd E. Feinberg, M.D., is Chief of the Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City and Adjunct Professor Neurology and Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.