Author Description

Understanding the neuropsychology of various conditions is important clinically and theoretically. This authorative book is the first to cover the subject in depth in a single volume and will prove invaluable to clinicians and trainees, as well as to trainee psychologists and postgraduates. It provides a ready reference of the nature, extent, location and putative causes of cognitive dysfunction in major brain disorders. The organisation of the book is according to disease category, providing a volume of reviews, by experts in their areas, of all the principal neurological and psychiatric disorders. A summary of the key details of the disorder is featured at the beginning of each chapter.