Auteur : Salloway, Stephen / Salloy, Paul / Cummings, Jeffrey L. 1948-

Maison d'édition : American Psychiatric Press

Date de publication : 1997

Collation : xii, 217 p. : ill.

ISBN : 0880489421

Notes : Publ. également dans: Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, volume 9, number 3, summer 1997 -- verso de la p. de t.

Langue : Anglais

Table des matières : Part 1 : Anatomy and neurochemistry
1. The limbic system : an anatomic, phylogenetic, and clinical perspective -- 2. Ventromedial temproal lobe anatomy, with comments on Alzheimer's disease and temproal injury -- 3. The Thalamus and neuropsychiatric illness -- 4. The accumbens : beyond the core-shell dichotomy -- 5. Neurobiology of fear responses : the role of the amygdala
Part 2 : Clinical syndromes
6. Paroxysmal limbic disorders in neuropsychiatry -- 7. Auras and experiential responses arising in the temporal lobe -- 8. Neuropsychiatric symptoms from the temprorolimbic lobes -- 9. The neurobiology of emotional experience -- 10. The neurobiology of recovered memory -- 11. The medial temproral lobe in schizophrenia -- 12. Limbic-cortical dysregulation : a proposed model of depression -- 13. The neurobiology of drug addiction -- 14. The neural substrates of religious experience

Résumé : The book presents an overview of functional limbic anatomy and provides a state-of-the-art report on limbic-related syndromes. Part One covers the functional neuroanatomy of limbic and subcortical systems. This emphasis on neuroanatomy provides a foundation for Part Two, which focuses on the limbic system and clinical neuropsychiatric syndromes.

Mots-clés : Neuropsychiatrie / Système limbique - Physiopathologie / Lobes temporaux - Physiopathologie / Troubles mentaux organiques

Cote : WM 220 N494 1997