Recovery from brain damage
Subtitle: research and theory
By: edited by Stanley Finger.
Contributors: Finger, Stanley.
Publisher: Plenum Press; Plenum Publishing Corporation
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Brain damage.; Neuropsychology.; Diseases -- Animal models.; Brain damage, Chronic -- Rehabilitation.; Brain injuries, Acute -- Rehabilitation.; Behavior -- Physiology.
Description: This volume is divided into five main sections: the logic of the lesion experiment and its role in the neural sciences; lesion experiments with laboratory species and the applicability of their results to man; proximal and distal anatomical effects of brain damage, and the difficulties inherent in correlating anatomical data with performance; factors which influence recovery after brain damage; and theories of recovery, including a reexamination of the doctrine of localization in light of recent findings.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.