Attention Disorders After Right Brain Damage Living in Halved Worlds /

• Main Author: Bartolomeo, Paolo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurology.; Rehabilitation medicine.; Clinical psychology.; Neuropsychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Clinical Psychology.; Rehabilitation Medicine.

This book provides an overview of attentional impairments in brain-damaged patients from both clinical and neuroscientific perspectives, and aims to offer a comprehensive, succinct treatment of these topics useful to both clinicians and scholars. A main focus of the book concerns left visual neglect...

Table of Contents:

• The attention systems of the human brain
• Sensory-motor deficits after right brain damage
• Consequences of right hemisphere lesions on bodily awareness and control
• Unilateral spatial neglect: clinical aspects
• Experimental variants of neglect tests
• Component deficits of neglect
• The anatomy of neglect
• Attention disorders in neurodegenerative conditions
• Treatment of attention disorders
• Conclusion and perspectives.