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Record Nr.

UNINA9910304140203321

Titolo

Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Epilepsy / / edited by William B. Barr, Chris Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

0-387-92826-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

Clinical Handbooks in Neuropsychology, , 2625-2678

Disciplina

616.85306

Soggetti

Neuropsychology

Neurology

Pediatrics

Nervous system - Surgery

Neurosurgery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Once feared and misunderstood even among the medical community, epilepsy has since largely been demystified. Besides the characteristic seizures, various cognitive, behavioral, and emotional difficulties are recognized as associated with the condition, and patients are finding relief in medical management and/or surgical intervention. Not surprisingly, neuropsychology has emerged as a major component in treatment planning, program development, and assessment of surgical candidates. Geared toward beginning as well as veteran clinicians, the Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Epilepsy offers readers a skills-based framework for assessment and treatment, using current evidence and standardized terminology. Expert coverage reviews widely-used methods for evaluating key aspects of patient functioning (MRI, MEG, electrocortical mapping, the Wada test), and presents guidelines for psychotherapeutic and cognitive remediation strategies in treating comorbid psychiatric conditions. Given the diversity of the patient population, additional chapters spotlight issues specific to subgroups including high- and low-functioning as well as geriatric and pediatric patients. This integrative hands-on approach benefits a range of



practitioners across medical and neurological settings. Topics featured in the Handbook: Neuropsychological assessment across the lifespan. Evaluating the epilepsy surgical candidate: methods and procedures. The Wada test: current perspectives and applications. Assessing psychiatric and personality disorders in the epilepsy patient. Evaluation and management of psychogenic non-epileptic attacks. Neuropsychological assessment with culturally diverse patients. Practical and flexible in its coverage, the Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Epilepsy serves not only neuropsychologists and neurologists but also primary care physicians such as internists, family physicians, and pediatricians.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962857903321

Titolo

Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature / / edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-23349-0

1-283-71196-6

0-203-10103-0

1-136-23350-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 41

Classificazione

LIT004100LIT008000LIT000000

Altri autori (Persone)

MahabirJoy A. I <1966-> (Joy Allison Indira)

PirbhaiMariam <1970->

Disciplina

809/.8928709729

Soggetti

Caribbean literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - Caribbean Area

Women in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Indo-Caribbean localities, femminist poetics -- pt. II. Transnational realities, diasporic subjectivities.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing



and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay the framework of an emerging and growing field, but also critically situate internationally acclaimed writers such as Shani Mootoo, Lakshmi Persaud and Ramabai Espinet within this emerging tradition. Indo-Caribbean women writers provide a fresh new perspective in Caribbean literature, be it in their unique representations of plantation history, anti-colonial movements, diasporic identities, feminisms, ethnicity and race, or contemporary Caribbean societies and culture. The book offers a theoretical reading of the poetics, politics and cultural traditions that inform Indo-Caribbean women's writing, arguing that while women writers work with and through postcolonial and Caribbean cultural theories, they also respond to a distinctive set of influences and realities specific to their positioning within the Indo-Caribbean community and the wider national, regional and global imaginary. Contributors visit the overlap between national and transnational engagements in Indo-Caribbean women's literature, considering the writers' response to local or nationally specific contexts, and the writers' response to the diasporic and transnational modalities of Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities"--