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Amnesia

Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects

Book • Second Edition1977

Edited by:

C.W.M. Whitty and O.L. Zangwill

Amnesia

Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects

Book • Second Edition1977

 

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Edited by:

C.W.M. Whitty and O.L. Zangwill

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Amnesia: Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects, 2nd Edition explores the clinical, psychological, and medicolegal aspects of amnesia. Experimental studies of the organic ... read full description

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    1 - Experimental Studies of the Organic Amnesic Syndrome

    M.F. Piercy

    Pages 1-51

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    2 - Amnesia in Cerebral Disease

    C.W.M. Whitty, G. Stores and W.A. Lishman

    Pages 52-92

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    3 - Transient Global Amnesia

    C.W.M. Whitty

    Pages 93-103

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    4 - The Amnesic Syndrome

    O.L. Zangwill

    Pages 104-117

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    5 - Traumatic Amnesia

    C.W.M. Whitty and O.L. Zangwill

    Pages 118-135

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    6 - Temporal Lobe Amnesia

    Susan D. Iversen

    Pages 136-182

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    7 - Memory Disorders Associated with Electroconvulsive Therapy

    Moyra Williams

    Pages 183-198

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    8 - Neuropathology of Amnesic States

    J.B. Brierley

    Pages 199-223

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    9 - Psychogenic Loss of Memory

    R.T.C. Pratt

    Pages 224-232

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    10 - Amnesia : A Psychoanalytic Viewpoint

    M.M. Feldman

    Pages 233-244

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    11 - Medicolegal Aspects of Amnesia

    T.C.N. Gibbens and J.E. Hall Williams

    Pages 245-264

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    References

    Pages 265-289

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    Index: SUBJECT/AUTHOR

    Pages 291-306

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Amnesia: Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects, 2nd Edition explores the clinical, psychological, and medicolegal aspects of amnesia. Experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome are presented and memory disorders associated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are described. The role of amnesia in cerebral disease, the neuropathology of amnesic states, and psychogenic memory loss are also considered. This book is comprised of 11 chapters and begins with a discussion on experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome, along with certain associated studies of normal memory. The reader is then introduced to the link between amnesia and cerebral pathology; transient global amnesia and its clinical manifestations; the amnesic syndrome and its relation to Korsakoff syndrome; traumatic amnesia; amnesias of temporal lobe origin; and memory disorders following ECT. A neuropathological examination of the human brain in cases of amnesia is presented, and examples of the psychopathology of memory are provided. The final chapter analyzes amnesia from a medicolegal point of view. This monograph will be of interest to clinicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychopathologists, psychologists, and medicolegal practitioners.

Amnesia: Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects, 2nd Edition explores the clinical, psychological, and medicolegal aspects of amnesia. Experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome are presented and memory disorders associated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are described. The role of amnesia in cerebral disease, the neuropathology of amnesic states, and psychogenic memory loss are also considered. This book is comprised of 11 chapters and begins with a discussion on experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome, along with certain associated studies of normal memory. The reader is then introduced to the link between amnesia and cerebral pathology; transient global amnesia and its clinical manifestations; the amnesic syndrome and its relation to Korsakoff syndrome; traumatic amnesia; amnesias of temporal lobe origin; and memory disorders following ECT. A neuropathological examination of the human brain in cases of amnesia is presented, and examples of the psychopathology of memory are provided. The final chapter analyzes amnesia from a medicolegal point of view. This monograph will be of interest to clinicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychopathologists, psychologists, and medicolegal practitioners.

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978-0-407-00056-8

Language

English

Published

1977

Copyright

Copyright © 1977 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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Editors

C.W.M. Whitty

Consultant Neurologist, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; and Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, University of Oxford

O.L. Zangwill

Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge; and Psychologist to the National Hospital, Queen Square, London