Table of Contents

What is neuropsychology? Part 1 Conceptualizations: concepts of mind; concepts of neural tissue. Part 2 Clinical assessment: how to examine a patient; formal neuropsychological assessment; localization; symptoms caused by focal lesions in the cerebrum. Part 3 Specific neuropsychological topics: disconnection syndromes; emotion, consciousness, and subjectivity; memory and amnesia; dementia - an example of diffuse disease; the epilepsies; spatial knowledge; language.

About the Author

Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., MFA, a pioneering researcher in synesthesia, is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University. He is the author of Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology and (with David M. Eagleman) the Montaigne Medal–winner Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, all published by the MIT Press.