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Edited By Francois Boller, MD, PhD, Bethesda, MD, USA Jordan Grafman, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Description Memory and its Disorders is dedicated to the memory of Laird Cermak who, despite his grave illness, vigorously and resolutely
took on the task of preparing a new section on memory and its disorders. The section includes chapters on animal models and neuropsychological
assessment. Memory is discussed from the anatomical and clinical viewpoints, and memory disorders resulting from specific diseases such
as Herpes simplex and Alzheimer's disease are considered in detail. The section further provides a cognitive neuropsychological analysis
of various forms of memory, including explicit memory, remote memory and semantic memory. Chapters on confabulation and on functional
amnesia are also included.
Contents Preface. List of contributors. Animal models of amnesia. Advances in the neuropsychological assessment of memory disorders. The temporal
lobes and memory. Frontal lobes and memory. Amnesia caused by Herpes Simplex encephalitis, infarctions in basal forebrain, and anoxia/ischemia.
Effects on memory of Papez circuit lesions. Transient and reversible memory disorders in neurological disease. Disorders of memory in
Alzheimer's disease. Processing deficits contributing to amnesic patients' explicit memory disorder. Memory consolidation, retrograde
amnesia, and the temporal lobe. The neuropsychology of remote memory. Disruption and loss of autobiographical memory. Semantic dementia:
one window on the structure and organisation of semantic memory. Semantic learning in amnesia. The neuropsychology of semantic memory.
Confabulation. Functional amnesia. Subject index.
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