Broken Memories : Case Studies in Memory Impairment Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Foreword
	Introduction: case studies in the neuropsychology of memory
1	Living with amnesia	1
Pt. I	Stranded in Time: Long-Term Memory	9
	Introduction
2	Prisoner of consciousness: a state of just awakening following herpes simplex encephalitis	14
3	Trapped in time: profound autobiographical memory loss following a thalamic stroke	31
4	Social and emotional characteristics of a profoundly amnesic postencephalitic patient	45
5	Acquisition of word-processing knowledge in an amnesic patient: implications for theory and rehabilitation	54
Pt. II	Did It Really Happen? Confabulations, Misrememberings and Delusions	77
	Introduction
6	Keeping out the past: a study of temporary memory loss	81
7	Dreamjourneys: living in woven realities, the syndrome of reduplicative paramnesia	93
8	Consciousness and confabulation: remembering 'another' past	101
9	How bad memories can sometimes lead to fantastic beliefs and strange visions	115
10	Memory pathology in schizophrenia	124
11	Delusional memory, confabulation and frontal lobe dysfunction	137
Pt. III	Where Was I? Imagination and Spatial Processing	155
	Introduction
12	My own remembered past: insights into the structure and processes of retrograde amnesia from a patient with visual access problems subsequent to encephalitis	160
13	Not knowing which way to turn: a specific image transformation impairment dissociated from working memory functioning	170
14	Lost in your own house	195
Pt. IV	Failures of Facts: Semantic Organization and Breakdown	209
	Introduction
15	Separated hemispheres, separated memories: lessons on long-term memory from split-brain patients	213
16	A case of forgotten knowledge	225
17	Problems naming animals: a category-specific anomia or a misnomer?	237
Pt. V	When It Isn't Working	249
	Introduction
18	17 + 14 = 41? Three cases of working memory impairment	253
19	Remembering stories but not words	267
20	Short-term recall without short-term memory	285
21	What the study of patients with speech disorders and of normal speakers tells us about the nature of rehearsal	302
Pt. VI	Lost for Words	331
	Introduction
22	To learn or not to learn: vocabulary in foreign languages and the problem with phonological memory	334
23	'I know it, but I can't write it': selective deficits in long- and short-term memory	344
24	How names are special: neuropsychological evidence for dissociable impairment and sparing of proper name knowledge in production	366
Pt. VII	Developments and Declines: Impairments Across the Lifespan	379
	Introduction
25	The kangaroo's a fox	383
26	When all else fails, we can still make tea: a longitudinal look at activities of daily living in an Alzheimer patient	397
27	Fifteen-year-long isolated amnesia: an unusual onset of Alzheimer's disease?	411
	Patient index	426
	Subject index	430
	Author index	433