Behavior and Mood Disorders in Focal Brain Lesions

This book, first published in 2000, is the first clinical reference work to address the relationship of focal brain dysfunction to disorders of mood.

Julien Bogousslavsky (Edited by), Jeffrey L. Cummings (Edited by)

9780521774826, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 August 2000

570 pages, 14 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 2.9 cm, 0.9 kg

'… a valuable survey of current research.' Neuroradiology

Unique in approach and authority and illustrated with informative case histories, Behavior and Mood Disorders in Focal Brain Lesions, first published in 2000, makes a major contribution to understanding the relationship between focal brain disorders and emotional and behavioural symptoms, summarising the current state of research and providing the basis for improved patient care. This is the first clinical reference work to address specifically the relationship of focal brain dysfunction to behavioral and emotional disorders, giving the most comprehensive account available of these manifestations of brain lesions including stroke, trauma, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and even neurosurgery. A worldwide team of neuroscientists and clinicians examines the links between regional brain dysfunction and disorders of mood, thought and affect processing, and behaviour. Chapters are devoted to methodological issues, to lesions of specific sites, such as the frontal lobes, basal ganglia and thalamus, and to symptoms such as mood disorder, violent behaviour and anosognosia.

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Emotional consequences of focal brain lesions: an overview Jeffrey Cummings and Julien Bogousslavsky
2. The evaluation of mood and behavior in patients with focal brain lesions David Desmond
3. Methodological issues in studying secondary mood disorders Jordan Grafman and Deborah Warden
4. Disorders of behavior and mood in focal brain lesion Florence Ghika-Schmid and Julien Bogousslavsky
5. Depression and lesion location in stroke Robert Robinson
6. Mood and behavior in disorders of basal ganglia Joseph Ghika
7. Mania and manic-like disorders Sergio Starkstein and Facundo Manes
8. Behavioral and emotional changes after focal frontal lobe damage Paul Eslinger and Laszlo Geder
9. Abulia, apathy, athymhormia: toward a neurology of human motivation Michel Habib
10. Thalmic behavioral syndrome Atsushi Yamadori
11. Obsessive compulsive disorders in association with focal brain lesions F. Etcharry-Boux and F. Dubas
12. Emotional dysprosody and similar dysfunctions Diana Van Lancker and Caterina Breitenstein
13. Temporal lobe behavioral syndromes Serge Bakchine
14. Neural correlates of violent behavior Daniel Tranel
15. Focal lesions and psychosis Terri Edwards-Lee and Jeffrey Cummings
16. Alterations in sexual behavior following focal brain injury John Ringman and Jeffrey Cummings
17. Anosognosia Patrik Vuilleumier
18. Acute confusional states and delirium Louis Caplan
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]