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Behavior and Mood Disorders in Focal Brain Lesions
edited by Julien Bogousslavsky and Jeffrey L. Cummings, ill.,
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000, $80
The systematic study of emotional and behavioral disorders after focal CNS lesions has been hampered by many factors including diversity of individual manifestations and subjective nature of these disorders, limited and often contradictory definitions, and inconsistent experimental methods. Consequently, our understanding of these complex functions is in its infancy and lags behind our knowledge of other cognitive abilities such as memory, language, and visuoperception.
This book is one of the few clinical references for reviewing a wide range of behavioral and affective disorders after focal brain lesions and for attempting to link these disorders with underlying anatomy. This is an ambitious goal. However, Bogousslavsky and Cummings have assembled an international team of contributing authors who succeed in expertly reviewing the current knowledge with breadth of coverage and depth of focus. The chapter authors consistently link phenomenology to neuroanatomy, from single structures to large-scale neural networks, giving this edited work a coherent theme.
The first three chapters provide a theoretical starting point for the book. In the first chapter, the authors define constructs of emotion and review a conceptual framework of mental functions relevant to understanding behavior and emotion. This chapter concludes with an overview of limbic system structure and neurotransmitters involved in emotional …
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