This volume represents a comprehensive overview of the
neuropsychology of emotion and the neural mechanisms
underlying emotional processing. It draws on recent studies
utilizing behavioral paradigms with normal subjects, the
brain lesion approach, clinical evaluations of patients with
neurological and psychiatric disorders, and neuroimaging
techniques. The book opens with an introduction summarizing
each chapter and pointing to directions for future research.
The first section is on history, the neuroanatomy and
neurophysiology of emotion, and techniques that have been
widely used to examine emotional processing-
neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging. Theoretical
perspectives on emotion are offered next, including
psychological, social-cognitive, neurobiological, and
neuropsychological models. A set of chapters on the neural
substrates of emotion deals with a spectrum of emotional
conditions: elation and mania, sadness and depression, anxiety and stress, anger and impulsivity, and apathy and
flat affect. The book concludes with clinical implications,
including a description of emotional deficits in
neurological and psychiatric disorders (e.g., stroke, head
injury, depression, and schizophrenia). Highlighted in this
section is an overview of rehabilitative treatments and
brain interventions for emotional processing deficits. This
authoritative volume will be an important resource and text
for neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists,
speech-language pathologists, neuroscientists,
psychiatrists, neurologists, rehabilitation specialists, and
their students and trainees.
