Neuropsychology of Emotion

This volume represents a comprehensive overview of theneuropsychology of emotion and the neural mechanismsunderlying emotional processing. It draws on recent studiesutilizing behavioral paradigms with normal subjects thebrain lesion approach clinical evaluations of patients withneurological and psychiatric disorders and neuroimagingtechniques. The book opens with an introduction summarizingeach chapter and pointing to directions for future research.The first section is on history the neuroanatomy andneurophysiology of emotion and techniques that have beenwidely used to examine emotional processing-neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging. Theoreticalperspectives on emotion are offered next includingpsychological social-cognitive neurobiological andneuropsychological models. A set of chapters on the neuralsubstrates of emotion deals with a spectrum of emotionalconditions: elation and mania sadness and depression anxiety and stress anger and impulsivity and apathy andflat affect. The book concludes with clinical implicationsincluding a description of emotional deficits inneurological and psychiatric disorders (e.g. stroke headinjury depression and schizophrenia). Highlighted in thissection is an overview of rehabilitative treatments andbrain interventions for emotional processing deficits. Thisauthoritative volume will be an important resource and textfor neuropsychologists clinical psychologistsspeech-language pathologists neuroscientistspsychiatrists neurologists rehabilitation specialists andtheir students and trainees.