Behavior and Mood Disorders in Focal Brain Lesions

• Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Emotional consequences of focal brain lesions: an overview Jeffrey Cummings and Julien Bogousslavsky; 2. The evaluation of mood and behavior in patients with focal brain lesions David Desmond; 3. Methodological issues in studying secondary mood disorders Jordan Grafman and Deborah Warden; 4. Disorders of behavior and mood in focal brain lesion Florence Ghika-Schmid and Julien Bogousslavsky; 5. Depression and lesion location in stroke Robert Robinson; 6. Mood and behavior in disorders of basal ganglia Joseph Ghika; 7. Mania and manic-like disorders Sergio Starkstein and Facundo Manes; 8. Behavioral and emotional changes after focal frontal lobe damage Paul Eslinger and Laszlo Geder; 9. Abulia, apathy, athymhormia: toward a neurology of human motivation Michel Habib; 10. Thalmic behavioral syndrome Atsushi Yamadori; 11. Obsessive compulsive disorders in association with focal brain lesions F. Etcharry-Boux and F. Dubas; 12. Emotional dysprosody and similar dysfunctions Diana Van Lancker and Caterina Breitenstein; 13. Temporal lobe behavioral syndromes Serge Bakchine; 14. Neural correlates of violent behavior Daniel Tranel; 15. Focal lesions and psychosis Terri Edwards-Lee and Jeffrey Cummings; 16. Alterations in sexual behavior following focal brain injury John Ringman and Jeffrey Cummings; 17. Anosognosia Patrik Vuilleumier; 18. Acute confusional states and delirium Louis Caplan; Index.

'It is exhaustive and makes us very conscious that a focal brain lesion affects not only our faculties of speaking, thinking and moving, but also our emotional reactions… this book is a 'must' for professionals or medical students interested in the relationships between the brain and behavioral disorders.' European Neurology