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Title

Broken memories : case studies in memory impairment / edited by Ruth Campbell and Martin A. Conway.

Publication

Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Campbell, Ruth, 1944-
• Conway, Martin A., 1952-

Description

xxvi, 444 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Based on Ruth Campbell's "Mental Lives", this book presents a series of case studies of memory disorders. Case studies have resurfaced in psychology as a key method of studying how the mind works. The book aims to bring real cases to life in a jargon-free way.

Subject

• Memory
• Memory disorders > Case studies
• Memory disorders
• Memory Disorders
• Gedächtnisstörung
• Geheugenstoornissen
• Memoria (psicologia)
• Memory > Case studies
• Troubles de la mémoire
• Mémoire
• mémoire > troubles > études diverses

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: case studies in the neuropsychology of memory / Martin A. Conway, Ruth Campbell and Susan E. Gathercole. 1. Living with amnesia / Narinder Kapur and David Moakes -- pt. I. Stranded in Time: Long-Term Memory -- Introduction / Martin A. Conway. 2. Prisoner of consciousness: a state of just awakening following herpes simplex encephalitis / Barbara A. Wilson and Deborah Wearing. 3. Trapped in time: profound autobiographical memory loss following a thalamic stroke / Rosaleen A. McCarthy and John R. Hodges. 4. Social and emotional characteristics of a profoundly amnesic postencephalitic patient / Margaret G. O'Connor, Laird S. Cermak and Larry J. Seidman. 5. Acquisition of word-processing knowledge in an amnesic patient: implications for theory and rehabilitation / Martial Van der Linden and Francoise Coyette -- pt. II. Did It Really Happen? Confabulations, Misrememberings and Delusions -- Introduction / Martin A. Conway. 6. Keeping out the past: a study of temporary memory loss / Alan J. Parkin and Hans G. Stampfer. 7. Dreamjourneys: living in woven realities, the syndrome of reduplicative paramnesia / Christina Rohrenbach and Theodor Landis. 8. Consciousness and confabulation: remembering 'another' past / Gianfranco Dalla Barba. 9. How bad memories can sometimes lead to fantastic beliefs and strange visions / John Joseph Downes and Andrew R. Mayes. 10. Memory pathology in schizophrenia / A.P. McKay, P.J. McKenna and A.D. Baddeley. 11. Delusional memory, confabulation and frontal lobe dysfunction / Michael D. Kopelman, Elizabeth M. Guinan and Philip D.R. Lewis -- pt. III. Where Was I? Imagination and Spatial Processing -- Introduction / Ruth Campbell. 12. My own remembered past: insights into the structure and processes of retrograde amnesia from a patient with visual access problems subsequent to encephalitis / Nelson Butters, Margaret G. O'Connor and Mieke Verfaellie. 13. Not knowing which way to turn: a specific image transformation impairment dissociated from working memory functioning / Robin G. Morris and Nick Morton. 14. Lost in your own house / J. Richard Hanley and Ann D.M. Davies -- pt. IV. Failures of Facts: Semantic Organization and Breakdown -- Introduction / Ruth Campbell. 15. Separated hemispheres, separated memories: lessons on long-term memory from split-brain patients / Dahlia W. Zaidel. 16. A case of forgotten knowledge / Elaine Funnell. 17. Problems naming animals: a category-specific anomia or a misnomer? / Christopher Barry and Jo V. McHattie -- pt. V. When It Isn't Working -- Introduction / Ruth Campbell. 18. 17 + 14 = 41? Three cases of working memory impairment / M. Jane Riddoch and Glyn W. Humphreys. 19. Remembering stories but not words / Randi C. Martin and Cristina Romani. 20. Short-term recall without short-term memory / David Howard. 21. What the study of patients with speech disorders and of normal speakers tells us about the nature of rehearsal / Gloria S. Waters and David Caplan -- pt. VI. Lost for Words -- Introduction / Ruth Campbell. 22. To learn or not to learn: vocabulary in foreign languages and the problem with phonological memory / Costanzo Papagno and Giuseppe Vallar. 23. 'I know it, but I can't write it': selective deficits in long- and short-term memory / Argye E. Hillis and Alfonso Caramazza. 24. How names are special: neuropsychological evidence for dissociable impairment and sparing of proper name knowledge in production / Carlo Semenza -- pt. VII. Developments and Declines: Impairments Across the Lifespan -- Introduction / Martin A. Conway. 25. The kangaroo's a fox / Christine M. Temple. 26. When all else fails, we can still make tea: a longitudinal look at activities of daily living in an Alzheimer patient / Jennifer Rusted, Hilary Ratner and Linda Sheppard. 27. Fifteen-year-long isolated amnesia: an unusual onset of Alzheimer's disease? / Sergio Della Sala, Federica Lucchelli, Alessandro Lunghi and Hans Spinnler.

ISBN

• 0631187227
• 9780631187226
• 0631187235
• 9780631187233

LCCN

94024242

OCLC

• ocm31378299
• 31378299
• SCSB-2064726

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library