BOOK REVIEWS: The Right Cerebral Hemisphere and Psychiatric Disorders.

Abstract

Machine derived contents note: PART I: Review of the Evidence on the Differential Functions of the Two Hemispheres of the Human Brain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Perspective -- 3. Language and Thought -- 4. Perception and Memory -- 5. Attention and Consciousness -- 6. Emotion -- 7. Movement -- 8. Individual Differerences -- PART II: Focal Neuropsychiatric Syndromes in the Light of Differential Hemispheric Function -- 9. General Considerations on Right-Hemisphere Disease and the Development of Morbid Psychological Phenomena -- 10. Morbid Awareness of Objects -- 11. Morbid Appreciation of Space and Time -- 12. Morbid Appreciation of Body and Self -- 13. Delusion -- 14. Disorders of Language and Thought -- 15. Neuropsychological Tests of Hemisphere Dysfunction -- PART III: Functional Psychiatric Disorders in Light of Differential Hemispheric Function -- 16. General Comments on Functional Psychiatric Disorders -- 17. Schizophrenic Subjective Phenomena -- 18. Schizophrenic Psychological Performance -- 19. Direct Examination of Hemisphere Imbalance in Schizophrenia -- 20. Depressive Illness and Mania -- 21. Infantile Autism -- 22. Conclusion.