Contents -- Part I: The Brain, the Mind, and White Matter -- 1. The Neurologic Background -- White Matter in the History of Neurology -- The Concept of Subcortical Dementia -- Does White Matter Contribute to Higher Function? -- The Perspective of Behavioral Neurology -- 2. White Matter Structure and Function -- Neuroanatomy -- Neurophysiology -- 3. Development and Aging -- Development of White Matter -- White Matter Changes in Aging -- 4. Neuroimaging -- Computed Tomography -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- Functional Neuroimaging -- Mapping Neural Networks -- Part II: Disorders of White Matter -- 5. Genetic Disorders -- Leukodystrophies -- Aminoacidurias -- Phakomatoses -- Mucopolysaccharidoses -- Muscular Dystrophy -- Callosal Agenesis -- 6. Demyelinative Diseases -- Multiple Sclerosis -- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis -- Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis -- Schilder's Disease -- Marburg's Disease -- Balò's Concentric Sclerosis -- 7. Infectious Diseases -- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Dementia Complex -- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy -- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis -- Progressive Rubella Panencephalitis -- Varicella Zoster Encephalitis -- Cytomegalovirus Encephalitis -- Lyme Encephalopathy -- 8. Inflammatory Diseases -- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus -- Behçet's Disease -- Sjögren's Syndrome -- Wegener's Granulomatosis -- Temporal Arteritis -- Polyarteritis Nodosa -- Scleroderma -- Isolated Angiitis of the Central Nervous System -- Sarcoidosis -- 9. Toxic Leukoencephalopathies -- Cranial Irradiation -- Therapeutic Drugs -- Drugs of Abuse -- Environmental Toxins -- 10. Metabolic Disorders -- Cobalamin Deficiency -- Folate Deficiency -- Central Pontine Myelinolysis -- Hypoxia -- Hypertensive Encephalopathy -- Eclampsia -- High Altitude Cerebral Edema -- 11. Vascular Diseases -- Binswanger's Disease.

Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy -- Leukoaraiosis -- Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy -- White Matter Disease of Prematurity -- Migraine -- 12. Traumatic Disorders -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Shaken Baby Syndrome -- Corpus Callosotomy -- 13. Neoplasms -- Gliomatosis Cerebri -- Diffusely Infiltrative Gliomas -- Primary Cerebral Lymphoma -- Focal White Matter Tumors -- 14. Hydrocephalus -- Early Hydrocephalus -- Hydrocephalus Ex Vacuo -- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus -- Part III: White Matter and Higher Function -- 15. Cognitive Dysfunction and Dementia -- Cognitive Dysfunction -- White Matter Dementia -- Why a New Syndrome? -- 16. Focal Neurobehavioral Syndromes -- Amnesia -- Aphasia -- Apraxia -- Alexia -- Developmental Dyslexia -- Gerstmann's Syndrome -- Agnosia -- Neglect -- Visuospatial Dysfunction -- Akinetic Mutism -- Executive Dysfunction -- Callosal Disconnection -- 17. Neuropsychiatric Syndromes -- Depression -- Mania -- Psychosis -- Personality Change -- Fatigue -- 18. The Behavioral Neurology of White Matter -- Clinical Implications -- Distributed Neural Networks -- Neural Network Disconnection -- Future Directions -- White Matter and the Mind -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.