Human Organic Memory Disorders
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Part of Problems in the Behavioural Sciences
- Author: Andrew R. Mayes
- Date Published: August 1988
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- isbn: 9780521348799
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After first considering the problems involved in assessing memory, Professor Mayes provisionally advances a taxonomy of elementary memory disorders and, for each in turn, reviews both the specific processes that are disrupted and the lesions responsible for the disruption. These disorders include short-term memory deficits, deficits in previously well-established memory, memory deficits caused by frontal lobe lesions, the organic amnesias, and disorders of conditioning and skill acquisition. Mayes argues that the memory deficits found in several neurological and psychiatric syndromes comprise concurring elementary memory disorders. Finally, he outlines the implications of his taxonomy for our understanding of normal memory.
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"...Mayes's book now stands as the definitive analysis of human memory disorders." Quarterly Review of Biology
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- Date Published: August 1988
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521348799
- length: 312 pages
- dimensions: 232 x 158 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.476kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Healthy and pathological memory: the underlying mechanisms
2. The assessment of memory disorders
3. Disorders of short-term memory
4. Disorders of previously well-established memory
5. The memory problems caused by frontal lobe lesions
6. Organic amnesia
7. Animal and biochemical models of amnesia
8. Less well-characterized memory disorders
9. Overview
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