Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Terminology used in text -- Contents -- 1 Assessment of memory functioning in clinical practice -- Memory assessment in specific clinical conditions -- Assessment of specific memory deficits -- Memory test batteries -- 2 Cerebrovascular disease -- Arterially-defined lesions -- Anatomically-defined lesions -- Episodic cerebrovascular disturbance and related disorders -- Management of memory deficits -- Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with cerebrovascular disease -- Summary -- 3 Cerebral tumours -- Cortical tumours -- Subcortical tumours -- Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with cerebral tumours -- Summary -- 4 Penetrating head injury -- Pre-traumatic and post-traumatic amnesia -- Anterograde memory deficits -- Retrograde memory deficits -- Distinctive features of memory disorders in penetrating head injury -- Summary -- 5 Blunt head injury -- Pre-traumatic and post-traumatic amnesia -- Anterograde memory deficits -- Rate of recovery of memory deficits -- Management of memory deficits -- Distinctive features of memory disorders in blunt head injury -- Summary -- 6 Degenerative, demyelinating and hydrocephalic dementias -- Primary degenerative dementia -- Huntington's disease -- Parkinson's disease -- Demyelinating disease -- Other primary dementias -- Hydrocephalic dementia -- Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with dementia -- Summary -- 7 Infectious, metabolic and related diseases -- Infectious diseases -- Metabolic diseases -- Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with infectious and metabolic diseases -- Summary -- 8 Toxic and deficiency states -- Alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome -- Chronic alcoholic subjects -- Other toxic conditions -- Other deficiency states