Human Organic Memory Disorders - Brossura

Mayes, Andrew R.

 
9780521348799: Human Organic Memory Disorders
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ISBN 10: 052134879X ISBN 13: 9780521348799
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Sinossi

Brain damage can cause memory to break down in a number of different ways, the analysis of which can illuminate how the intact brain mediates memory processes. After first considering the problems involved in assessing memory, this book provisionally advances a taxonomy of elementary memory disorders and, for each in turn, reviews both the specific processes that are disrupted and the lesions responsible for the disruption. These disorders include short-term memory deficits, deficits in previously well-established memory, memory decifits caused by frontal lobe lesions, the organic amnesias, the disorders of conditioning and skill acquisition. Particular attention is paid to the organic amnesias, about which we know the most, and to the contributions of animal models to our knowledge. Andrew Mayes argues that the memory deficits found in several neurological and psychiatric syndromes comprise co-occurring elementary memory disorders. Finally, he outlines the implications of his taxonomy for our understanding of normal memory. A wide audience of researchers and students will find Human Organic Memory Disorders a helpful guide to a complex problem area.

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Recensione

"...Mayes's book now stands as the definitive analysis of human memory disorders." Quarterly Review of Biology

"...a clear and comprehensive book on a most difficult subject." American Journal of Psychiatry

Contenuti

Acknowledgements; 1. Healthy and pathological memory: the underlying mechanisms; 2. The assessment of memory disorders; 3. Disorders of short-term memory; 4. Disorders of previously well-established memory; 5. The memory problems caused by frontal lobe lesions; 6. Organic amnesia; 7. Animal and biochemical models of amnesia; 8. Less well-characterized memory disorders; 9. Overview; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
1988
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
052134879X
ISBN 13 
9780521348799
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
308
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Germania

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ISBN 10:  0521344182 ISBN 13:  9780521344180
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1988
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