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The Temporal Lobe

  • 1st Edition, Volume 187 - August 12, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Gabriele Miceli, Paolo Bartolomeo, Vincent Navarro
  • Language: English

The Temporal Lobe, Volume 187 covers the exponential growth of studies on the relationships between brain and language/cognition, many of which involved the temporal lobe. Thi… Read more

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Description

The Temporal Lobe, Volume 187 covers the exponential growth of studies on the relationships between brain and language/cognition, many of which involved the temporal lobe. This volume summarizes research on the anatomy and function of the temporal lobe under both normal and pathological conditions. In addition, it discusses the interactions of the temporal lobe with other brain structures. The book highlights the role of the temporal lobe in language processing as well as vision, object, face recognition and processing. The book also discusses the temporal lobe's role in reading, speech and the processing of color, music, action and memory.

Temporal lobe disorders, assessments and treatments are also covered, including encephalitis, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, Korsakov’s syndrome, and more.

Key features

  • Summarizes research on the anatomy and function of the temporal lobe
  • Identifies the importance of the temporal lobe to language and speech
  • Includes how the temporal lobe interacts with other brain structures
  • Reviews disorders of the temporal lobe, including dementia, encephalitis, and more

Readership

Clinical neurologists

Table of contents

Section I. Introduction

1. The connectional anatomy of the temporal lobe

2. Anatomy of the temporal lobe: From macro to micro
Section II. Structure/functions of the T Lobe, as they emerge from studies in healthy participants and brain-damaged populations

3. Music processing and amusia

4. Cortical disorders of speech processing: Pure word deafness and auditory agnosia

5. Neuroplasticity following cochlear implants

6. Components of language processing and their long-term and working memory storage in the brain

7. Cross-modal integration and plasticity in the superior temporal cortex

8. Visual mental imagery: Inside the mind’s eyes

9. The functions of the temporal-parietal junction

10. Visual objects and their colors

11. Face processing in the temporal lobe

12. The neural underpinnings of word comprehension and production: The critical roles of the temporal lobes

13. Domain-specific connectivity drives the organization of object knowledge in the temporal lobe

14. The noun-verb distinction

15. The neural correlates of abstract and concrete words

16. Acquired dyslexias following temporal lesions

17. Proper names and personal identity

18. Neural correlates of recognition and naming of famous persons and landmarks: A special role for the left anterior temporal lobe

19. The temporal lobes and memory

20. Working memory and active sampling of the environment: Medial temporal contributions

21. Amygdala function in emotion, cognition, and behavior

22. Amygdala connectivity and implications for social cognition and disorders
Section III. Diseases of/in the temporal lobe

23. Neuropathology of the temporal lobe

24. Frontotemporal dementia: A unique window on the functional role of the temporal lobes

25. The temporal lobe in typical and atypical Alzheimer disease

26. Limbic encephalitis

27. Semiology, EEG, and neuroimaging findings in temporal lobe epilepsies

28. Neuropsychology of temporal lobe epilepsies

29. Surgery procedures in temporal lobe epilepsies

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 187
  • Published: December 13, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

GM

Gabriele Miceli

Gabriele Miceli MD is senior professor of neurology at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento (also seconded to the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, for the period 2018-2021). He leads the team “Cognitive Neuroscience of Language”. His clinical and research work focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of language. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Brain and Language and Cognitive Neuropsychology, and of the Advisory board of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris and of the Institut de Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Créteil.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Professor of Neurology, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy; Centro Interdisciplinare Linceo 'Beniamino Segre', Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy

PB

Paolo Bartolomeo

Paolo Bartolomeo, MD PhD is a neurologist and research director at the French biomedical research institute (Inserm). He leads the team “Physiological Investigations of Clinically Normal and Impaired Cognition” at the Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) in Paris, France. He has developed extensive work in the field of cognitive neuroscience, in particular on human attention and perception, and on their deficits after brain damage. He is action editor for the journal Cortex.
Affiliations and expertise
Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

VN

Vincent Navarro

Vincent Navarro, MD, PhD is full professor of neurology at Sorbonne Université. He leads the epilepsy Unit and the EEG laboratory, in the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, in Paris, France. He leads the Center of Reference for Rare Epilepsies for adults in Paris. He is co-director of the team “Dynamics of epileptic networks and neuronal excitability”, in the Paris Brain Institute. His clinical and research works focus on pathophysiology of focal epilepsies—based on in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological recordings—, on status epilepticus and autoimmune epilepsies.
Affiliations and expertise
Sorbonne Université, Paris Brain Institute – ICM, INSERM, CNRS, Paris, France; AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, DMU Neurosciences, Epilepsy Unit and Clinical Neurophysiology Department, Paris, France; Center of Reference for Rare Epilepsies, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France

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