Neuropsychology of Mental Illness (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wood, Stephen J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is widely accepted that most psychiatric disorders are associated with cognitive impairment and that neuropsychological approaches can help unravel the mechanisms underlying brain function and help us develop a better understanding of these disorders. In this book, a panel of the world's leading experts describe the development of neuropsychological approaches to the investigation, description, measurement and management of a wide range of mental illnesses. Part One explains the rationale for examining neuropsychological processes within clinical disorders, leading into Part Two summarizing and critiquing the methodological approaches to study. Part Three covers each of the major psychiatric disorders and provides a summary of the neuropsychological findings for each condition. The final section brings together the perspectives of neuroscientists, psychiatrists and philosophers. Essential reading for all those studying the healthy as well as the disordered brain, The Neuropsychology of Mental Illness will appeal to specialists from the fields of mental health, psychology, clinical neuroscience and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511700170
• Artikelnr.: 52833851

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication; Foreword; Preface; List of contributors; Part I.
Neuropsychological Processes: 1. Developmental neuropsychology: normative
trajectories and risk for psychiatric illness; 2. Processes and mechanisms
in neuropsychiatry: sensory-perceptual; 3. Processes and mechanisms in
neuropsychiatry: motor-executive processes; 4. The neurobiology of the
emotion response: perception, experience, and regulation; 5. Frontal
asymmetry in emotion, personality and psychopathology: methodological
issues in electrocortical and hemodynamic neuroimaging; 6. Approaches to
understanding language dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders: insights
from the study of schizophrenia; 7. Associative memory; 8. The neural basis
of attention; 9. The role of executive functions in psychiatric disorders;
10. Decision-making; 11. The neuropsychology of social cognition:
implications for psychiatric disorders; Part II. The Importance of Methods:
12. Psychiatric diagnoses: purposes, limitations and an alternative
approach; 13. Neuropsychological methods in mental disorders research:
illustrations from methamphetamine dependence; 14. The study of emotion and
the interaction between emotion and cognition: methodological perspectives;
15. Neurophysiology: using neurophysiological techniques to study auditory
hallucinations in schizophrenia; 16. Neuroimaging; 17.
Psychopharmacological modeling of psychiatric illness; 18. Cognitive
phenomics; Part III. The Neuropsychology of Psychiatric Disorders: 19.
Neuropsychology of ADHD and other disorders of childhood; 20. A
multidimensional neurobehavioral model of personality disorders; 21.
Neuropsychology in eating disorders; 22. Neurobiological and
neuropsychological pathways into substance use and addictive behaviour; 23.
Neuropsychology of obsessive-compulsive disorder; 24. Neuropsychological
investigation in mood disorders; 25. Manic distractibility and processing
efficiency in bipolar disorder; 26. Schizophrenia; Part IV. Integration and
Synthesis: Are Mental Illnesses Disorders of Consciousness? A Trialogue
between Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Psychiatric Perspectives: 27.
Mental illness and the consciousness thesis; 28. A nonreductive physicalist
account of affective consciousness; 29. Consciousness of oneself and others
in relation to mental disorders; 30. Trialogue: commentaries on 'are mental
illnesses disorders of consciousness?' Comments on Panksepp and on Vogeley
and Newen; Affective consciousness and the psychiatric comfort zones of
experienced life; The definition and the constitution of mental disorders
and the role of neural dysfunctions; Response to commentaries;
Understanding affects: toward a neurobiology of primary process
mentalities; Replies to comments by Jaak Panksepp and by G. Lynn Stephens
and George Graham.