The Essential Handbook of Memory Disorders for Clinicians

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.

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“.,."has some great strengths that must definitely be praised as they are rare to find...a very useful book on the shelf of those having a clinical or...a scientific interest in memory disorders..." (Psychological Medicine, Vol 35, 2005)”

"...essential in every sense...deserves to be read by all those working with people with memory disorders ..." (Clinical Psychology, No.45, January 2005)

"...highly recommended as a concise and clinically relevant text to which practitioners can turn for authoritative views ... this text could readily serve as a reference in the teaching of memory disorders at the graduate or post-graduate level." (Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, May 2005)

"...this resource really is imperative for any clinican working in research, assessment, and rehabilitation of memory disorders." (British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 21st July 2005)

"...has some great strengths that must definitely be praised as they are rare to find...a very useful book on the shelf of those having a clinical or...a scientific interest in memory disorders..." (Psychological Medicine, Vol 35, 2005)

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.

Recent years have seen some key advances in both the understanding of memory disorders and the assessment and treatment of patients.

This selection from the very comprehensive second edition of The Handbook of Memory Disorders is a concise collection that distils those chapters of most relevance to clinical practice. The Essential Handbook is designed for forward-looking and busy clinicians who wish to inform their practice with recent research.

Contributors

Alan D. Baddeley, UK

James T. Becker, USA

Jason Brandt, USA

Linda Clare, UK

Elizabeth L.Glisky, USA

Gerri Hanten, USA

Diane B. Howieson, USA

Narinder Kapur, UK

Michael D. Kopelman, UK

Harvey S. Levin, USA

Muriel D. Lezak, USA

Judith A. Middleton, UK

Cynthia A. Munro, USA

Margaret O'Connor, USA

Amy A. Overman, USA

Robyn L. Tate, Australia

Christine M. Temple, UK

Mieke Verfaellie, USA

Barbara A. Wilson, UK

Bob Woods, UK

Recent years have seen some key advances in both the understanding of memory disorders and the assessment and treatment of patients. This selection from the very comprehensive second edition of The Handbook of Memory Disorders is a concise collection that distils those chapters of most relevance to clinical practice. The Essential Handbook is designed for forward-looking and busy clinicians who wish to inform their practice with recent research. Contributors Alan D. Baddeley, UK James T. Becker, USA Jason Brandt, USA Linda Clare, UK Elizabeth L.Glisky, USA Gerri Hanten, USA Diane B. Howieson, USA Narinder Kapur, UK Michael D. Kopelman, UK Harvey S. Levin, USA Muriel D. Lezak, USA Judith A. Middleton, UK Cynthia A. Munro, USA Margaret O'Connor, USA Amy A. Overman, USA Robyn L. Tate, Australia Christine M. Temple, UK Mieke Verfaellie, USA Barbara A. Wilson, UK Bob Woods, UK

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