Disorders of Emotion in Neurologic Disease

An examination of the secondary emotional disorders common to neurologic disease

Kenneth M. Heilman (Volume editor), Stephen E Nadeau (Volume editor)

9780128222904, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 22 February 2022

338 pages
27.6 x 21.6 x 2.4 cm, 1.08 kg

Disorders of Emotion in Neurologic Disease, Volume 183 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series, informs clinicians on which neurologic diseases are likely to have a secondary effect on emotion, what to look for in diagnosis, and best practices for treatment.  The book begins with an understanding of the neurological basis for emotions in order to better understand what goes awry in neurological disease.  It then discusses specific neurologic diseases and disorders affecting emotion.

1. The neuroscience of emotional disorders 
2. Unconscious processing of emotions and the right hemisphere
3. Alexithymia 
4. Disorders of vocal emotional expression and comprehension: The aprosodias
5. Disorders of facial emotional expression and comprehension 
6. Emotional disorders and the cerebellum: Neurobiological substrates, neuropsychiatry, and therapeutic implications 
7. Hemispheric stroke: Mood disorders
8. Emotion and mood disorders associated with epilepsy 
9. Mood and emotional disorders associated with parkinsonism, Huntington disease, and other movement disorders 
10. The emotional disorders associated with multiple sclerosis
11. Paraneoplastic and autoimmune encephalitis: Alterations of mood and emotion
12. The effect of severe traumatic brain injury on social cognition, emotion regulation, and mood 
13. Degenerative dementias: Alterations of emotions and mood disorders
14. Treatment of disorders of emotional comprehension, expression, and emotional semantics
15. Neural mechanisms of emotions, alexithymia, and depression

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Clinical psychology [MMJ], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Endocrinology [MJG], Medical research [MBGR], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM]