Apraxia

Professor Goldenberg studied medicine and was trained as a neurologist in Vienna. After stages in Aachen and Paris he was habilitated with a thesis on the neurological basis of mental visual images in 1986. Since 1995 he has been Director of the Department of Neuropsychology at Bogenhausen Hospital and Professor at the Technical University of Munich. Goldenberg also served as Chairman of the German Society for Aphasia Research and Treatment and is associate editor of core journals in neuropsychology and neurological rehabilitation. He has published more than 200 scientific papers in international journals and about 50 book chapters. He is author of a popular German textbook on clinical neuropsychology and co-editor of German and English books on Clinical Neuropsychology.

• 1. Apraxia before Liepmann: Mind-Palsy, Asymbolia, and Apraxia ; 2. Hugo Karl Liepmann ; 3. The decline of diagrams ; 4. Return of the ostracised ; 5. High and Low Levels of Action Control ; 6. Imitation: A direct route from vision to action? ; 7. Body part specificity ; 8. Use of single tools ; 9. Naturalistic action ; 10. Communicative Gestures - Pantomime of Tool Use ; 11. Communicating with Gestures ; 12. Apraxia in left handers ; 13. Approaching apraxia from the motor side ; 14. Callosal apraxia and intermanual conflict ; 15. The cognitive side of motor control ; 16. Levels of therapy

In this book, Professor Goldenberg has made an impressive case for placing apraxia at the centre of neuropsychological research ... this book not only represents not only a summary of his own seminal work in the area but the mose erudite and comprehensive review of the condition we are likely to encounter for some time