Human organic memory disorders / Andrew R. Mayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayes, A. R. (Andrew Richard)

Series:

Problems in the behavioural sciences

Problems in the behavioural sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Memory--physiology.

Memory Disorders.

Medical Subjects:

Memory--physiology.

Memory Disorders.

Physical Description:

vii unnumbered pages, 300 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Summary:

After first considering the problems involved in assessing memory, Professor Mayes provisionally advances a taxonomy of elementary memory disorders and, for each in turn, reviews both the specific processes that are disrupted and the lesions responsible for the disruption. These disorders include short-term memory deficits, deficits in previously well-established memory, memory deficits caused by frontal lobe lesions, the organic amnesias, and disorders of conditioning and skill acquisition. Mayes argues that the memory deficits found in several neurological and psychiatric syndromes comprise concurring elementary memory disorders. Finally, he outlines the implications of his taxonomy for our understanding of normal memory.

Contents:

1. Healthy and pathological memory: the underlying mechanisms 1

2. The assessment of memory disorders 36

3. Disorders of short-term memory 55

4. Disorders of previously well-established memory 76

5. The memory problems caused by frontal lobe lesions 102

6. Organic amnesia 124

7. Animal and biochemical models of amnesia 195

8. Less well-characterized memory disorders 240.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 279-291.

ISBN:

052130718X

052131447X

OCLC:

16921566