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This work is a collection of Carl Wenicke's lectures on neuropsychiatry translated into English for the first time. Beginning with basic concepts about normal brain function, the book moves to clinical topics, dealing first with chronic mental disorders and 'paranoid states', and then to the more complex area of acute mental disorders. Many of the featured topics are still clinically relevant, and matters of contemporary debate. Carl Wernicke is one of the pioneers of neurology and psychiatry; clinicians, researchers and historians will find this of great interest.
List of contents
Foreword.- Editor's Foreword.- Dedication for this Translation.- Preface to this Translation.- PART 1: Psycho-physiological Introduction.- Introduction to this Translation.- Lecture 1.- Lecture 2.- Lecture 3.- Lecture4.- Lecture 5.- Lecture 6.- Lecture 7.- Lecture 8.- PART 2: The Paranoid States.- Lecture 9.- Lecture 10.- Lecture 11.- Lecture 12.- Lecture 13.- Lecture 14.- Lecture 15.- Lecture 16.- Lecture 17.- PART 3: Acute Psychoses and Defect States.- Lecture 18.- Lecture 19.- Lecture 20.- Lecture 21.- Lecture 22.- Lecture 23.- Lecture 24.- Lecture 25.- Lecture 26.- Lecture 27.- Lecture 28.- Lecture 29.- Lecture 30.- Lecture 31.- Lecture 32.- Lecture 33.- Lecture 34.- Lecture 35.- Lecture 36.- Lecture 37.- Lecture 38.- Lecture 39.- Lecture 40.- Lecture 41.- Editorial Commentary.- Index.
About the author
Robert Miller, ONZM, B.A., B.Sc. (Oxon), PhD. (Glasgow)
Freelance Researcher, and Honorary Fellow, Otago University
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago School of Medicine
Wellington, New Zealand
K. John Dennison, J.P., M.Sc., B.A.
Research Fellow
Department of Anatomy, Otago Medical School
Dunedin, New Zealand
Summary
This work is a collection of Carl Wenicke’s lectures on neuropsychiatry translated into English for the first time. Beginning with basic concepts about normal brain function, the book moves to clinical topics, dealing first with chronic mental disorders and 'paranoid states', and then to the more complex area of acute mental disorders. Many of the featured topics are still clinically relevant, and matters of contemporary debate. Carl Wernicke is one of the pioneers of neurology and psychiatry; clinicians, researchers and historians will find this of great interest.
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“The intended audience was originally Wernicke's trainees and contemporaries. Now, neurologists, psychiatrists, behavioral neurologists and neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists, and historians of neurology, psychiatry, and neuroscience would be greatly interested in this work. … This is an outstanding translation of the clinical lectures of a pioneer in modern neuropsychiatry. Anyone interested in the brain and behavior would enjoy reading this magnificent work.” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2016)
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"The intended audience was originally Wernicke's trainees and contemporaries. Now, neurologists, psychiatrists, behavioral neurologists and neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists, and historians of neurology, psychiatry, and neuroscience would be greatly interested in this work. ... This is an outstanding translation of the clinical lectures of a pioneer in modern neuropsychiatry. Anyone interested in the brain and behavior would enjoy reading this magnificent work." (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2016)
