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Behavioral Neurology
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Behavioral Neurology

Kaancan Deniz, HyungSub Shim and Daniel Tranel
Rosenberg's Atlas of Clinical Neurology, pp.329-370
Springer Nature Switzerland
2026
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-13040-2_7

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Abstract

Behavioral neurologyBehavioral neurology encompasses a variety of diseases and disorders of higher brain functions, related to focal or diffuse cortical and subcortical brain disease. We use “higher brain functions” to refer 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 decision-making, emotion, 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 Chap. 6) are not included here. There is considerable overlap, conceptually and practically, between behavioral neurologyBehavioral neurology and the fields of neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology. In fact, most of the disorders described in this chapter are properly known as neuropsychological disorders, and some could be referred to as neuropsychiatric disorders. Behavioral neurology, though, remains a useful term, because it conveys accurately the fact that the approach to the patient is from the perspective of neurology (as opposed to psychiatry), and the diagnosis and management of the patient are couched in the tradition and technology of medicine (as opposed to psychology).
 Behavioral neurology, agnosia, aphasia, post-stroke rehabilitation, neglect, amnesia

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