Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology: An Evolutionary Perspective

by Michael Hoffmann

Overview

This ground breaking title presents the many different neurologic syndromes and vastly expanding data in the brain sciences from an evolutionary, or neuro-archeological, perspective, as well as a clinical one. The neuro-archeological perspective offers a more thorough picture of the field – providing hindsight that leads to great insight and foresight. It thus provides the reader with the core foundational aspects of many perplexing neurologic syndromes. Authored by a noted authority in cognitive neurology and including ample tables, diagrams and images, the book covers the full range of behavioral neurological, psychological and neuropsychiatric syndromes, as well as their underlying disease states, relevant neuropsychological tests and contemporary neuroimaging, both structural and functional. The evolutionary approach offers a comprehensive, novel, and completely updated overview of each topic. An invaluable title unlike any other in the field, Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology: An Evolutionary Perspective is a landmark resource and will be of great interest to neurologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and trainees in all fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319814469
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	06/22/2018
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Hoffmann MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Orlando VA Medical Center, Orlando, Florida
Department of Neurology
Florida

USA

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Cognitive archeology, cognitive neurology and the unraveling of the connectome: Divulging brain function from fractured skulls and fractured minds.- Neurochemistry.- Vision: elementary and complex visual processing.- Temporal lobe syndromes.- Memory Syndromes.- Left Hemisphere Syndromes – Apraxias.- Parietal lobe syndromes.- Right Hemisphere Syndromes.- Language, aphasias and related disorders.- Acquired Cultural Circuits.- Frontal System Syndromes.- Neuroimaging and treatments perspectives.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Michael Schrift, DO (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Description: There are many books on the market covering cognitive and behavioral neurology as well as neuropsychiatry. This thought-provoking book covers brain-behavior relationships from a unique evolutionary perspective. Theodosius Dobzhansky stated that "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." The author brings this notion to life for cognitive/behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry in this fascinating book.
Purpose: The aim, according to the author, is to "provide the reader with the core foundational aspects of many perplexing neurologic syndromes." The author's evolutionary perspective, what he calls a neuroarchaeological perspective, "offers a more thorough picture of the field — providing hindsight that leads to greater insight and foresight."
Audience: The target audience includes "neurologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and trainees in all fields."
Features: The first chapter provides an introduction to the field and the author's perspective on cognition and behavior. This is followed by a chapter on "cognitive archaeology, cognitive neurology, and the unraveling of the connectome," which is an evolutionary historical account of behavioral neurological syndromes, and a chapter covering neurochemistry from a big history perspective. The elementary and complex processing that occurs in vision is covered in another chapter with excellent reviews of disorders of complex visual processing. Temporal lobe syndromes, memory syndromes, left hemisphere syndromes such as apraxia, parietal lobe syndromes, language-related disorders, and acquired cultural circuits are also covered. The frontal systems syndromes and neural imaging and treatment perspectives are the concluding chapters of this interesting book. This is a scholarly work with pertinent and timely citations of the literature at the end of each chapter.
Assessment: This is a top-notch and fascinating book presenting an evolutionary perspective of brain-behavior relationships in an effort to find a deeper understanding of behavioral and cognitive neurological syndromes. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the brain and behavior. It is a welcome addition to the neurological and psychiatric literature.

Doody's Review Service

This is a top-notch and fascinating book presenting an evolutionary perspective of brain‐behavior relationships in an effort to find a deeper understanding of behavioral and cognitive neurological syndromes. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the brain and behavior. It is a welcome addition to the neurological and psychiatric literature.” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2017)

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