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Delusion and Confabulation

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Edited by Robyn Langdon, and Martha Turner.

Published March 2010

People with psychiatric and neurological illness sometimes say and think the most amazing things. They might believe they are dead; claim to see, despite being blind; or "remember" things that never happened. Historical demarcations between academic disciplines dictate that these are distinct…
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Genes, Cognition and Neuropsychiatry

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Edited by Brita Elvevåg, and Daniel Weinberger.

Published September 2009

Neuropsychiatry stands to benefit enormously from the new research framework afforded by the sequencing of the human genome and from examining the role of molecular genetics on the clinical presentation of psychiatric patients. A solid foundation is essential if novel genetic breakthroughs are to…
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The Behavioural and Emotional Complications of Traumatic Brain Injury

By Simon F. Crowe.

Published February 2008

It is difficult to imagine what it must be like for someone following the personal crisis and catastrophe that ensues as a result of a serious traumatic brain injury (TBI). The individual is confronted with a huge range of alterations in his or her normal functioning, operating at the…
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The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Emotion and Emotional Disorders

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Edited by André Aleman, Nick Medford and Anthony S. David.

Published May 2006

Recent years have shown an increased interest in the cognitive and neural basis of emotion in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Indeed, various methods of behavioural and neural measurement of emotional processes are continually being developed and refined, which has led to an explosion of…
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Voices in the Brain: The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Edited by Sean A Spence, and Professor Anthony S David.

Published August 2005

For millennia, human beings have reported hearing ‘voices’. These experiences have been a source of fascination, sometimes because they spoke of revelation, sometimes because they presaged madness and destruction. From Socrates to the Yorkshire Ripper, the impact of voices upon human society has…
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Voices in the Brain: The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Edited by Anthony S. David, and Sean A. Spence.

Published March 2004

For millennia, human beings have reported hearing 'voices'. These experiences have been a source of fascination, sometimes because they spoke of revelation, sometimes because they presaged madness and destruction. From Socrates to the Yorkshire Ripper the impact of voices upon human society has…
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Pathologies of Body, Self and Space

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Edited by Peter W. Halligan, and Sean A. Spence.

Published September 2002

What happens when the physical body and the subjective sense of self part company? How do we explain phantom limbs and alien abduction? What are the cognitive, neurobiological mechanisms that support such phenomena? In this special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Spence and Halligan explore all…
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Developmental Disorders of the Frontostriatal System

Neuropsychological, Neuropsychiatric and Evolutionary Perspectives

By John L. Bradshaw.

Published October 2001

In this book, the author discusses a range of common neurodevelopmental disorders affecting young people - autism, depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder - from the unique perspective of their proposed common origin in the function and dysfunction of…
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Conversion Hysteria

Towards a Cognitive Neuropsychological Account, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

By Anthony S. David, and Peter W. Halligan.

Published August 1999

Patients with hysterical conversion present with striking physical symptoms such as weakness, sensory disorders or memory loss, that suggest a neurological disease but which show no evidence of brain and central nervous system damage. Although it is now over one hundred years since Breuer and Freud…
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Method In Madness

Case Studies In Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Edited by Peter W. Halligan, and John C. Marshall.

Published September 1996

In clinical neuropsychiatry, case studies provide invaluable demonstrations of the range and types of unusual psychological states that can occur after brain damage. In the pursuit of objectivity and scientific respectability, however, many academic reports of neuropsychiatric disorders appear cold…
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