Positive clinical neuroscience: Explorations in positive neurology

Neuroscientist

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 354-369

  Kapur, Narinder ^a   Cole, Jonathan ^b   Manly, Tom ^c   Viskontas, Indre ^d   Ninteman, Aafke ^e   Hasher, Lynn ^f   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Neuropsychology Service   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical neuroscience; paradoxical brain; positive neurology; positive neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACILITATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE; PARADOXICAL BRAIN; POSITIVE NEUROLOGY; POSITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY;

AGING; BRAIN; CREATIVITY; HUMANS; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879939776     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858412470976     Document Type: Review

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