Human Organic Memory Disorders

Zusammenfassung After considering the problems involved in assessing memory! this book provisionally advances a taxonomy of elementary memory disorders and reviews both the specific processes that are disrupted and the lesions reponsible for the disruption. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew R. Mayes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.1988
• EAN: 9780521348799
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34879-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Problems in the Behavioural Sc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology