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" Organic mental disease. "
F R Freemon
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776104
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b596100
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F R Freemon
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Organic mental disease.\ F R Freemon
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[Place of publication not identified] : Springer, 2013
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9401172862
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: 9789401172868
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1. Localization of Mental Function.- Relationships between Brain and Mind.- Cerebral Localization of Mental Function.- Ancient Times.- Phrenology.- The Bell-Magendie Law.- The Whole Brain Counterreaction.- Today.- 2. Lateralization of Psychological Function.- Motor Output.- Corticospinal Tract.- Basal Ganglia.- Cerebellum.- Motor Control.- Sensory Input.- Vision.- Hearing.- Cutaneous Sensations.- Other Senses.- Handedness.- Lesions.- Normal Subjects.- Visual Stimulation Restricted to One Field.- Bilateral Auditory Stimulation.- Electroencephalography.- The Wada Test.- Other Studies in Normal Subjects.- Surgical Separation of the Hemispheres.- Perception.- Motor Control.- Psychological Function.- Two Minds in Every Head?.- 3. The Limbic System.- The Concept of the Limbic System.- Olfaction.- Hippocampal Formation.- Hypothalamus.- Other Portions of the Limbic System.- Clinical Correlation.- Limbic Memory Disorder.- 4. Evaluation of the Patient with Organic Mental Disease.- The Art of Taking a History.- The Patient of Too Many Words.- The Patient of Too Few Words.- The Overly Agreeable Patient.- The Organic Mental Disease Patient.- Mental Status Examination.- The Hostile Patient.- Laboratory Studies.- Diagnosis.- 5. Lethargy and Coma.- Levels of Consciousness.- Initial Evaluation.- Pupils.- Eye Movements.- Caloric Examination.- Respiratory Pattern.- Search for Asymmetries.- Diagnosis.- Basic Diagnostic Strategy.- Coma with Focal Signs.- Coma without Focal Signs.- Other Coma Syndromes.- Akinetic Mutism.- Locked-in Syndrome.- Alpha Coma.- Psychogenic Unresponsiveness.- Decerebrate and Decorticate Postures.- Pathophysiology.- 6. Delirium and Organic Psychosis.- Syndrome Diagnosis.- Etiologic Diagnosis.- Delirium Tremens.- Evaluation and Treatment.- Pathophysiology.- Illustrative Cases.- 7. Amnesia.- Post Traumatic Amnesia.- Syndrome Diagnosis.- Etiologic Diagnosis.- Seizures.- Ischemia.- Drug Induced Amnesia.- Transient Global Amnesia.- Permanent Memory Loss.- Bilateral Hippocampal Infarction.- Herpes simplex encephalitis.- Korsakov's Disease.- Confabulation and Other Symptoms.- Illustrative Cases.- 8. Dementia.- Clinical Presentation.- Syndrome Diagnosis.- Etiologic Diagnosis.- Potentially Reversible Causes.- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.- Alzheimer's Disease and Senile Dementia.- Other Identifiable Causes.- Evaluation.- Treatment.- 9. Aphasia.- Examination.- Diagnosis.- Classification.- Anterior Aphasia.- Posterior Aphasia.- Other Types of Aphasia.- Conduction Aphasia.- Alexia without Agraphia.- Gerstmann's Syndrome.- Apraxia.- Miscellaneous Aphasias.- Practical Importance.- Famous Aphasics.- 10. Dysfunction of the Minor Hemisphere.- Right Hemisphere Dysfunction.- Spatial Disorientation.- Indifference to Left Hemiplegia.- Muscial Appreciation.- Inability to Recognize Faces.- Other Symptoms.- Evaluation.- Pathophysiology.- Importance.- 11. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.- Epilepsy.- Clinical Symptomatology.- Syndrome Diagnosis.- Etiologic Diagnosis.- Violence.- Behavioral Disorder.- Treatment.- 12. Epilogue.- References.- Supplemental Bibliography.
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RC386.F747 2013
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