Feature Summary

Principles of Human Neurospychology provides

• a balanced, coherent organization and an effective framework for teaching a technically complex subject.
• an integrated view of the brain at the molecular, neural, and structural level and presents each of the major areas of neurological function and deficit.
• a thorough introduction to the nervous system, neuroanatony, and the neuropsychological perspective, as well as attention to the history and methodological tradition of neuropsychology.

Unlike competing texts, Principles of Human Neurospychology

• provides citations to primary research sources in the body of the text and implicitly reinforces the important principle that conclusions must be based on empirical evidence.
• facilitates the use of the text as a springboard for the student's own investigations of the scientific literature through specific citations.
• uses an engaging style and level of content well suited in an introductory text for the upper-level undergraduate and graduate student.
• organizes the material in terms of domains of function, rather than anatomical locus of lesion. PHN explores areas not explicitly covered in some competing texts, including neuropsychological aspects of psychopathology and developmental neuropsychology.