The Essential Handbook of Memory Disorders for Clinicians

This concise version of the Handbook of Memory Disorders is a selection of chapters from the original volume that have been chosen with the busy practitioner in mind. The Essential Handbook provides individual clinicians and students with those parts the editors consider most relevant and useful on a day-to-day basis, as a portable adjunct to the more comprehensive Handbook. (Handbook of Memory Disorders - 047 149819X)

This concise version of the Handbook of Memory Disorders isa selection of chapters from the original volume that have beenchosen with the busy practitioner in mind. The EssentialHandbook provides individual clinicians and students with thoseparts the editors consider most relevant and useful on a day-to-daybasis, as a portable adjunct to the more comprehensiveHandbook.(Handbook of Memory Disorders - 047 149819X)

About the Editors.List of Contributors.Preface.Chapter 1: The Psychology of Memory (Alan D. Baddeley).Chapter 2: The Amnesic Syndrome: Overview and Subtypes (MargaretO' Connor and Mieke Verfaellie).Chapter 3: Posttraumatic Amnesia and Residual Memory Deficitafter Closed Head Injury (Harvey S. Levin and Gerri Hanten).Chapter 4: Psychogenic Amnesia (Michael D. Kopelman).Chapter 5: Developmental Amnesias and Acquired Amnesias ofChildhood (Christine M. Temple).Chapter 6: The Memory Deficit in Alzheimer's Disease(James T. Becker and Amy A. Overman).Chapter 7: Memory Disorders in Subcortical Dementia (JasonBrandt and Cynthia A. Munro).Chapter 8: Assessment of Memory Disorders (Barbara A.Wilson).Chapter 9: Separating Memory from Other Cognitive Disorders(Diane B. Howieson and Muriel D. Lezak).Chapter 10: Management and Remediation of Memory Problems inBrain-injured Adults (Barbara A. Wilson).Chapter 11: Assessment and Management of Memory Problems inChildren (Judith A. Middleton).Chapter 12: Assessment and Intervention in Dementia of AlzheimerType (Linda Clare).Chapter 13: Reducing the Impact of Cognitive Impairment inDementia (Bob Woods).Chapter 14: External Memory Aids and Computers in MemoryRehabilitation (Narinder Kapur, Elizabeth L. Glisky and Barbara A.Wilson).Chapter 15: Emotional and Social Consequences of MemoryDisorders (Robyn L. Tate).Author Index.Subject Index.