Disorders of Emotion in Neurologic Disease, Volume 183 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series, informs clinicians on which neurologic diseases are likely to have a secondary effect on emotion, what to look for in diagnosis, and best practices for treatment. The book begins with an understanding of the neurological basis for emotions in order to better understand what goes awry in neurological disease. It then discusses specific neurologic diseases and disorders affecting emotion. Reviews the neurology of emotions Specifies neurologic diseases that affect emotional expression Informs clinicians on how to diagnose, along with best practices for treatment Includes coverage of stroke, dementia, epilepsy, Huntington's, Parkinson's, TBI, and more INDICE: 1. The neuroscience of emotional disorders 2. Unconscious processing of emotions and the right hemisphere3. Alexithymia 4. Disorders of vocal emotional expression and comprehension: The aprosodias5. Disorders of facial emotional expression and comprehension 6. Emotional disorders and the cerebellum: Neurobiological substrates, neuropsychiatry, and therapeutic implications 7. Hemispheric stroke: Mood disorders8. Emotion and mood disorders associated with epilepsy 9. Mood and emotional disorders associated with parkinsonism, Huntington disease, and other movement disorders 10. The emotional disorders associated with multiple sclerosis11. Paraneoplastic and autoimmune encephalitis: Alterations of mood and emotion12. The effect of severe traumatic brain injury on social cognition, emotion regulation, and mood 13. Degenerative dementias: Alterations of emotions and mood disorders14. Treatment of disorders of emotional comprehension, expression, and emotional semantics15. Neural mechanisms of emotions, alexithymia, and depression
- ISBN: 978-0-12-822290-4
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 338
- Fecha Publicación: 22/02/2022
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés