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Principles of Human Neuropsychology
G. Dennis Rains, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Methods in Neuropsychology

Chapter Outline

ANATOMICAL METHODS

Identifying Anatomical Connections

Structural Imaging Methods

METHODS MEASURING FUNCTION

Functional Imaging Methods

Neurophysiological Methods

LESION METHODS

Dissociation of Function

Interpretation of Single and Double Dissociation

Associated Impairments

Dissociations as a Window on the Structure of Cognition and on Localization of Function

Limits on the Interpretation of Dissociations

Further Thoughts on the Logic of Dissociation and Association

COMMISSUROTOMY

THE SODIUM AMOBARBITAL TEST

Hemispheric Specialization and Handedness

Use of the Sodium Amobarbital Test in the Neurosurgical Management of Focal Seizures

The Testing Procedure

STUDIES OF PEOPLE WITH BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE ABNORMALITIES

Studies of Normal People: Laterality Studies

STUDIES OF NORMAL PEOPLE: LATERALITY STUDIES

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