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Klappentext Describes neuropsychological approaches to the investigation, description, measurement and management of a wide range of mental illnesses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication; Foreword; Preface; List of contributors; Part I. Neuropsychological Processes: 1. Developmental neuropsychology: normative trajectories and risk for psychiatric illness; 2. Processes and mechanisms in neuropsychiatry: sensory-perceptual; 3. Processes and mechanisms in neuropsychiatry: motor-executive processes; 4. The neurobiology of the emotion response: perception, experience, and regulation; 5. Frontal asymmetry in emotion, personality and psychopathology: methodological issues in electrocortical and hemodynamic neuroimaging; 6. Approaches to understanding language dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders: insights from the study of schizophrenia; 7. Associative memory; 8. The neural basis of attention; 9. The role of executive functions in psychiatric disorders; 10. Decision-making; 11. The neuropsychology of social cognition: implications for psychiatric disorders; Part II. The Importance of Methods: 12. Psychiatric diagnoses: purposes, limitations and an alternative approach; 13. Neuropsychological methods in mental disorders research: illustrations from methamphetamine dependence; 14. The study of emotion and the interaction between emotion and cognition: methodological perspectives; 15. Neurophysiology: using neurophysiological techniques to study auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia; 16. Neuroimaging; 17. Psychopharmacological modeling of psychiatric illness; 18. Cognitive phenomics; Part III. The Neuropsychology of Psychiatric Disorders: 19. Neuropsychology of ADHD and other disorders of childhood; 20. A multidimensional neurobehavioral model of personality disorders; 21. Neuropsychology in eating disorders; 22. Neurobiological and neuropsychological pathways into substance use and addictive behaviour; 23. Neuropsychology of obsessive-compulsive disorder; 24. Neuropsychological investigation in mood disorders; 25. Manic distractibility and processing efficiency in bipolar disorder; 26. Schizophrenia; Part IV. Integration and Synthesis: Are Mental Illnesses Disorders of Consciousness? A Trialogue between Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Psychiatric Perspectives: 27. Mental illness and the consciousness thesis; 28. A nonreductive physicalist account of affective consciousness; 29. Consciousness of oneself and others in relation to mental disorders; 30. Trialogue: commentaries on 'are mental illnesses disorders of consciousness?' Comments on Panksepp and on Vogeley and Newen; Affective consciousness and the psychiatric comfort zones of experienced life; The definition and the constitution of mental disorders and the role of neural dysfunctions; Response to commentaries; Understanding affects: toward a neurobiology of primary process mentalities; Replies to comments by Jaak Panksepp and by G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham....
