Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and index.
Contents
On Parkinson's disease -- Dopamine -- The nature and functions of the agentic self -- The neurology of the agentic self -- Impairment of the agentic self in Parkinson's disease : cognitive -- Deficits in Parkinson's disease -- The agentic self and personality changes in Parkinson's disease -- Evolutionary perspectives on the agentic self : its neural -- Networks and Parkinson's disease -- Speech and language deficits of Parkinson's disease -- Sleep disorders of Parkinson's disease -- Mood disorders and apathy in Parkinson's disease -- Psychosis and dementia in Parkinson's disease -- Impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease -- Rehabilitation of the agentic self.
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Summary
Patrick McNamara examines the major neuropsychiatric syndromes of Parkinson's disease in detail and offers a cognitive theory that accounts for both their neurology and their phenomenology.
