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)

About the Editors. List of Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1: The Psychology of Memory (Alan D. Baddeley). Chapter 2: The Amnesic Syndrome: Overview and Subtypes (Margaret O’ Connor and Mieke Verfaellie). Chapter 3: Posttraumatic Amnesia and Residual Memory Deficit after Closed Head Injury (Harvey S. Levin and Gerri Hanten). Chapter 4: Psychogenic Amnesia (Michael D. Kopelman). Chapter 5: Developmental Amnesias and Acquired Amnesias of Childhood (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 (Jason Brandt 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 in Brain-injured Adults (Barbara A. Wilson). Chapter 11: Assessment and Management of Memory Problems in Children (Judith A. Middleton). Chapter 12: Assessment and Intervention in Dementia of Alzheimer Type (Linda Clare). Chapter 13: Reducing the Impact of Cognitive Impairment in Dementia (Bob Woods). Chapter 14: External Memory Aids and Computers in Memory Rehabilitation (Narinder Kapur, Elizabeth L. Glisky and Barbara A. Wilson). Chapter 15: Emotional and Social Consequences of Memory Disorders (Robyn L. Tate). Author Index. Subject Index.