Neuropsychological Explorations of Memory and Cognition :
[Book]
Essay in Honor of Nelson Butters
edited by Laird S. Cermak.
Boston, MA
Springer US : Imprint : Springer
1994
(XVII, 334 pages)
Critical issues in neuropsychology
1. Recovery of Function After Serial Lesions of Prefrontal Cortex in the Rhesus Monkey: A Retrospective --;2. Comparative Neuropsychology: Brain Functions in Nonhuman Primates and Human Neurobehavioral Disorders --;3. Processing Deficits of Amnesic Patients: Nearly Full Cycle? --;4. Verbal Priming and Semantic Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: Degraded Representation or Impaired Activation? --;5. Semantic Memory Deficits Associated with Alzheimer's Disease --;6. Exploring Disorders of Semantic Memory --;7. Amnesia, Aging and Alzheimer's Disease --;8. Identification of Neuropsychologically Defined Subgroups of Alzheimer's Disease Patients --;9. Contributions of Cognitive Psychology to the Study of Impaired Memory and Attention --;10. Cognitive Investigations in Huntington's Disease --;11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Memory Disorders --;12. The Mammillary Bodies Revisited: Their Role in Human Memory Functioning --;13. Functioning and Anatomical Specificity of Frontal Lobe Functions --;14. Recovery of Function After Focal Cerebral Insult: A Pet Activation Study --;15. Remote Memory in Retrospect --;16. The Clinical Assessment of Memory Disorders --;17. Differential Neuropsychology: Identifying Risk Factors for Cognitive Dysfunction in Medically Ill Patients --;18. Procedural Memory and Rehabilitation --;19. Psychodynamic Phenomena, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience --;20. Applying the Neuropsychology of Memory Disorders to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder --;21 Organismic-Developmental Theory and Neuropsychological Research --;22. Growing up in Neuropsychology --;Bibliography of Nelson Butters, Ph. D.
Researchers who were influenced by Dr. Nelson Butters contribute articles to this volume to honor him and his thirty-year career. Their contributions reflect how Dr. Butters impacted their current work and offer an historical account of research theory and paradigmatic shifts within the field of cognitive neuropsychology.