Book chapter
Behavioral Neurology
Atlas of clinical neurology, pp.243-267
Current Medicine, Second edition
2003
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-4552-8_7
Abstract
Behavioral neurology encompasses a variety of diseases and disorders of higher brain functions, related to focal cortical and subcortical brain disease. “Higher” here refers to the fact that the domain of behavioral neurology covers the most complex and advanced aspects of human cognition and behavior, including functions such as memory, language, problem-solving, complex perception, social behavior, planning and decisionmaking, and personality. In general, behavioral neurology is concerned with disorders of these functions that occur as a consequence of acquired brain disease in adults who previously were normal. Hence, developmental conditions, psychiatric diseases, and disorders attributable to progressive dementia conditions (see Chapter 6) are not included here.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Behavioral Neurology
- Creators
- Daniel Tranel - University of Iowa, NeurologyThomas J Grabowski JrHanna Damasio
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Atlas of clinical neurology, pp.243-267
- Edition
- Second edition
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4757-4552-8_7
- Publisher
- Current Medicine; Philadelphia
- Number of pages
- VII, 565
- Alternative title
- Clinical neurology
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2003
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002277502771
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