Alan D. Baddeley & Michael Kopelman 
The Essential Handbook of Memory Disorders for Clinicians [PDF ebook] 

This concise version of the Handbook of Memory Disorders is
a selection of chapters from the original volume that have been
chosen with the busy practitioner in mind. The Essential
Handbook provides individual clinicians and students with those
parts the editors consider most relevant and useful on a day-to-day
basis, as a portable adjunct to the more comprehensive
Handbook.

(Handbook of Memory Disorders – 047 149819X)

Inhoudsopgave

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Chapter 1: The Psychology of Memory (Alan D. Baddeley).

Chapter 2: The Amnesic Syndrome: Overview and Subtypes (Margaret
O’ Connor and Mieke Verfaellie).

Chapter 3: Posttraumatic Amnesia and Residual Memory Deficit
after Closed Head Injury (Harvey S. Levin and Gerri Hanten).

Chapter 4: Psychogenic Amnesia (Michael D. Kopelman).

Chapter 5: Developmental Amnesias and Acquired Amnesias of
Childhood (Christine M. Temple).

Chapter 6: The Memory Deficit in Alzheimer’s Disease
(James T. Becker and Amy A. Overman).

Chapter 7: Memory Disorders in Subcortical Dementia (Jason
Brandt and Cynthia A. Munro).

Chapter 8: Assessment of Memory Disorders (Barbara A.
Wilson).

Chapter 9: Separating Memory from Other Cognitive Disorders
(Diane B. Howieson and Muriel D. Lezak).

Chapter 10: Management and Remediation of Memory Problems in
Brain-injured Adults (Barbara A. Wilson).

Chapter 11: Assessment and Management of Memory Problems in
Children (Judith A. Middleton).

Chapter 12: Assessment and Intervention in Dementia of Alzheimer
Type (Linda Clare).

Chapter 13: Reducing the Impact of Cognitive Impairment in
Dementia (Bob Woods).

Chapter 14: External Memory Aids and Computers in Memory
Rehabilitation (Narinder Kapur, Elizabeth L. Glisky and Barbara A.
Wilson).

Chapter 15: Emotional and Social Consequences of Memory
Disorders (Robyn L. Tate).

Author Index.

Subject Index.

Over de auteur

Alan D. Baddeley, Department of Psychology, University of
York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

Alan Baddeley was Director of the Medical Research Council
Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, UK for over 20 years. He is
now at the University of York. He is a cognitive psychologist with
broad interests in the functioning of human memory under both
normal conditions and conditions of brain damage and stress.

Michael D. Kopelman, Neuropsychiatry and Memory
Disorders Clinic, St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road,
London SE1 7EH, UK

Michael Kopelman is Professor of Neuropsychiatry in the
Institute of Psychiatry based at St Thomas’ Hospital,
King’s College, London. He holds qualifications in both
neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology, and has particular interest
and expertise in a wide range of memory disorders, both
neurological and psychogenic. He runs a neuropsychiatry and memory
disorders clinic at St Thomas’s Hospital.

Barbara A. Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences
Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK

Barbara Wilson is a senior scientist at the MRC Cognition and
Brain Sciences Unit and is Director of Research at the Oliver
Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Ely, UK. She
is a clinical psychologist with particular interests in the impact
of neuropsychological memory deficits on everyday functioning and
improving methods of neurorehabilitation. She was awarded an OBE in
1998 for services to medical rehabilitation, and is Editor-in-Chief
of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.