Title Fractured minds : a case-study approach to clinical neuropsychology / Jenni A. Ogden

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description ix, 290 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 1. Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology -- 2. The Neuropsychological Assessment -- 3. Marooned in the Moment: H.M., A Case of Global Amnesia -- 4. Out of Control: The Consequences and Treatment of Epilepsy --5. The Breakdown of Language: Case Studies of Aphasia -- 6. A Body in the Mind: A Case of Autotopagnosia --7. Out of Mind, Out of Sight: A Case of Hemineglect --8. Vision Without Knowledge: Visual Object Agnosia and Prosopagnosia -- 9. The Impaired Executive: A Case of Frontal-Lobe Dysfunction -- 10. Beating the Odds: Severe Head Injury and the Importance of Ongoing Rehabilitation -- 11. The Unseen Injury: Minor Closed Head Injury -- 12. Explosions in the Mind: A Case of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage -- 13. Twenty Years Too Late: Organic Solvent Neurotoxicity -- 14. Dementia: A Family Tragedy -- 15. Split Brain, Split Mind? Case L.B. -- 16. A Whole Life With Half a Brain: Kate's Story Analysis Clinical psychology Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography : pages 265-282 Subject Clinical neuropsychology -- Case studies. Nervous system -- Diseases -- Case studies. Neuropsychology -- Case studies. Nervous System Diseases. Neuropsychology. Nervous System Diseases. Nervous System. Disease. Neuropsychology. Genre/Form Case Reports. Case studies. LC no. 95050751 ISBN 0195088131 (alk. paper) 019508814X (paperback: alk. paper)

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