Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology An Evolutionary Perspec
This ground breaking title presents the many different neurologic syndromes and vastly expanding data in the brain sciences from an evolutionary, or neuro-archeological, perspective, as well as a clinical one. The neuro-archeological perspective off
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Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology
Michael Hoffmann
Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology An Evolutionary Perspective
Michael Hoffmann MD, PhD Professor of Neurology Orlando VA Medical Center University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-33179-9 ISBN 978-3-319-33181-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33181-2
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For my wife Bronwyn, daughter Jenna Leigh and son Michael
Preface
Human mind disorders are both fascinating and manifold in their presentations. The vast panoply of cognitive and behavioral syndromes spans several clinical disciplines, principally neurology, psychiatry, and psychology, each with their distinctive cultural and methodological approaches. Each discipline has made pivotal contributions in understanding the science of the mind. Yet their areas of concentrations across syndromes, disease states, and brain circuitry differ. What is becoming more pertinent today is the crossdisciplinary approach to patient diagnosis, treatment, and care. That premise is a primary focus of the book with the hope of fostering closer ties and collaborations amongst the primary clinical brain disciplines. A unifying concept and approach is welding of the known syndromes into evolutionary origins. Evolutionary medicine has been touted as the most important basic science. By deciphering the origins of our anatomy, physiology, and brain circuitry and how they were exapted from prior structures goes a long way to understanding some of the more perplexing higher cortical function disorders. Einstein once retorted to the question; “How did you come up with the theory of re
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