Attention Disorders After Right Brain Damage: Living in Halved Worlds

by Paolo Bartolomeo

Book Overview

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, a dramatic but often overlooked consequence of right hemisphere damage, usually of vascular origin, but also resulting from other causes such as neurodegenerative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447170113
• ISBN13: 9781447170112
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"