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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824976003321

Autore

McNamara Patrick <1956->

Titolo

The cognitive neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's disease / / Patrick McNamara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

0-262-29745-0

1-283-25866-8

9786613258663

0-262-29836-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

616.8/33

Soggetti

Parkinson's disease

Neuropsychiatry

Cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On Parkinson's disease -- Dopamine -- The nature and functions of the agentic self -- The neurology of the agentic self -- Impairment of the agentic self in Parkinson's disease : cognitive -- Deficits in Parkinson's disease -- The agentic self and personality changes in Parkinson's disease -- Evolutionary perspectives on the agentic self : its neural -- Networks and Parkinson's disease -- Speech and language deficits of Parkinson's disease -- Sleep disorders of Parkinson's disease -- Mood disorders and apathy in Parkinson's disease -- Psychosis and dementia in Parkinson's disease -- Impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease -- Rehabilitation of the agentic self.

Sommario/riassunto

Patrick McNamara examines the major neuropsychiatric syndromes of Parkinson's disease in detail and offers a cognitive theory that accounts for both their neurology and their phenomenology.