Books in the Foundations of Neuropsychology series

Offering an account of aphasia, this work combines historical, anatomic, and psychological approaches toward understanding the nature of aphasia. It includes a discussion of the brain-language relationship, the symptoms and syndromes common to aphasia, and alternative approaches to classification. It also traces history of aphasic theory.

Anomia is the inability to access spoken names for objects, most often associated with the elderly or those with brain damage to the left hemisphere. This title offers a review of disorders of naming, a summary of relevant research data, as well as a study of advances in cognitive analysis and anatomic findings.

Even if perpetrator neuro psychological factors are found to be reliably associated with aggression, it will still be necessary to demonstrate the extent to which different neuro psychological factors are marker or are causal variables in aggressive behavior.

The study of language has increasingly become an area of interdisciplinary interest. This book is comprehensive look at sentence procesing as it pertains to the brain, covering everything from language acquisition to lexical and syntactic processing.