Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Section 1: Neuropsychological processes -- Why examine neuropsychological processes in mental illness? -- References -- Chapter 1: Developmental neuropsychology: normative trajectories and risk for psychiatric illness -- Introduction -- Neuropsychological domains -- Attention -- Memory -- Visuospatial function -- Language -- Speed of processing -- Executive function -- Considerations in the assessment of children -- Developmental neuropsychology milestones -- Neuropsychological deficits: risk for psychiatric illness -- Schizophrenia -- Bipolar and depressive illness -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2: Processes and mechanisms in neuropsychiatry: sensory-perceptual -- Synesthesia -- Phantom limbs -- "Missing" and supernumerary limbs -- Unilateral (hemispatial) neglect -- Asomatognosia and pathological embodiment -- Hallucinations and delusions -- Delusions of control in psychosis -- Delusional misidentification syndromes -- Autoscopia, out-of-body and near-death experiences -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Processes and mechanisms in neuropsychiatry: motor-executive processes -- Introduction -- Neuromotor circuitry -- Conceptual advances in motor theory: affordances and mirror neurons, motor control models -- Affordances -- Mirror neurons -- Motor control models -- Feed forward models -- Motor control and attention -- Motor overflow -- Neuromotor dysfunction and mental disorders -- Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood or adolescence -- Case focus: autism and Asperger's disorder. An example of how neuromotor investigation has the potential to offer new insights into etiology and diagnosis -- Disorders usually first diagnosed in late adolescence and adulthood.

Neuromotor assessment and research -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: The neurobiology of the emotion response: perception, experience and regulation -- Introduction -- Emotion perception -- The amygdala -- The insula -- Emotion production, experience and emotion-dependent learning and decision-making -- The amygdala -- The insula -- Ventral/rostral anterior cingulate cortex -- Medial orbitofrontal cortex -- Ventral striatum -- Emotion regulation -- Automatic regulatory processes -- Cognitive regulatory processes -- Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex -- Lateral orbitofrontal cortex -- Hippocampus -- Neural systems for emotion -- Implications for psychopathology -- References -- Chapter 5: Frontal asymmetry in emotion, personality and psychopathology: methodological issues in electrocortical and hemodynamic neuroimaging -- Introduction -- Emotion and frontal brain asymmetries -- Personality and frontal brain asymmetries -- Frontal asymmetry, electrophysiology and hemodynamics -- EEG and the study of frontal asymmetries -- Hemodynamic imaging and the manipulation of emotion -- Hemodynamic measures of brain asymmetry -- Size/mass difference analysis -- Conjunction analysis -- Factorial designs -- Connectivity analyses -- Methodological complexities in asymmetry analyses -- Examples of lateralized activity measured by fMRI -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Endnote -- References -- Chapter 6: Behavioral and electrophysiological approaches to understanding language dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders: insights from the study of schizophrenia -- Introduction -- Clinical language disturbances in psychosis: thought disorder and beyond -- Single words and concepts semantic: memory structure and function -- Semantic identification and naming -- Explicit knowledge and use of semantic category.

Explicit production: semantic fluency -- Explicit processing: knowledge of semantic category and semantic attributes -- Implicit knowledge of semantic and associative relationships -- Implicit production: word association tasks and the Latent Semantic Analysis -- Implicit processing: semantic priming -- Automatic semantic priming in schizophrenia -- Controlled semantic priming in schizophrenia -- Single words and concepts: summary and discussion -- Sentences, ambiguity and figurative language -- Semantic predictability and congruity -- Syntax and the semantic-syntactic interface -- Lexical ambiguity -- Figurative language -- Sentences, ambiguity and figurative language: summary and conclusion -- Discourse -- Referential coherence -- Other types of discourse coherence -- Discourse: summary and conclusion -- Relationship between language abnormalities and other cognitive dysfunction -- Thought disorder -- Single words and concepts -- Sentences -- Discourse -- Language abnormalities and other cognitive dysfunction summary: and conclusions -- Implications and future directions -- Clinical implications -- Implications for understanding brain dysfunction in schizophrenia -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7: Associative memory -- Introduction -- Measuring associative memory -- Grounds for investigating associative memory function in mental disorders -- Reason 1: Improving our understanding of underlying neuropathology -- Reason 2: Informing the origins of neuropsychiatric symptomatology -- Reason 3: Understanding functional impairment -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The neural basis of attention -- Introduction -- Levels of selection: early and late selection -- Voluntary attentional control mechanisms -- Supramodal attention -- Reflexive attention mechanisms -- Attentional deficits in psychiatric disorders -- Conclusion.

Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9: The role of executive functions in psychiatric disorders -- Introduction -- Defining the executive system -- The association between the frontal lobes and executive functions -- Functions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex -- Broadening the network of executive functions -- What is the role of the frontal lobes? -- Working memory -- The relevance of spatial working memory to psychiatric disorders -- Brain development and the maturation of executive functions: a hypothesis for the emergence of executive function deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders -- Genetic influences on executive functions -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10: Decision-making -- Introduction: relevance of decision-making to neuropsychiatry -- The relationship between psychology and economics in decision-making -- The neuropsychology of decision-making -- The Iowa Gambling Task and somatic marker hypothesis -- Preference for risk -- Choice between delayed rewards -- Information sampling and 'reflection impulsivity' -- Decision-making in neuropsychiatric patient groups -- Frontal variant fronto-temporal dementia -- Substance abuse and alcoholism -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Schizophrenia and affective disorders -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11: The neuropsychology of social cognition: implications for psychiatric disorders -- Social cognition in an evolutionary framework -- The neural basis of social cognition in healthy humans -- Face perception -- Facial emotion recognition -- Theory of Mind -- Social cognition: distinct from traditional neuropsychology? -- Dissociation of social and non-social cognitive function -- Correlations with neuropsychological performance -- Within-task non-social control conditions.

Social cognition: implications for psychiatry -- Endnotes -- References -- Section 2: The importance of methods -- Chapter 12: Psychiatric diagnoses: purposes, limitations and an alternative approach -- Introduction -- Definitions and phenomenology: the clinician as assessor -- Inter-rater reliability -- Test-retest reliability -- Comment -- Defining the phenotype? -- Another approach: focusing on biological and cognitive factors as prime determinants of making a diagnosis -- Comments -- Another approach to psychiatric diagnosis: a Staging Model -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 13: Neuropsychological methods in mental disorders research: illustrations from methamphetamine dependence -- Introduction -- Methods and approaches -- Study design and test selection -- Neuropsychological assessment in MA dependence -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- Cognitive neuropsychology of MA dependence -- Daily functioning -- Neuropsychology and daily functioning in MA dependence -- Interpretation of neuropsychological data -- Demographic variables -- Suboptimal effort -- Suboptimal effort in MA dependence -- Disease characteristics -- Methamphetamine dependence characteristics -- Statistical methodologies -- Treatment outcomes -- Neuropsychology and the treatment of MA dependence -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 14: The study of emotion and the interaction between emotion and cognition: methodological perspectives -- Introduction -- Measuring emotion -- Test batteries -- Emotional expression -- Induction procedures -- Evaluation procedures -- The interaction between emotion and cognition -- Behavioral methodologies -- Emotion and attention -- Emotion and memory -- Emotion and learning -- Functional imaging -- Hemodynamic-metabolic approaches -- Transcranial magnetic stimulation -- Event-related potentials.

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