ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book provides descriptions of patients who fail to attend to one side of space, some who are blind and yet still believe they can see, some who do not know the meaning of objects around them, others who have completely lost their ability to learn new information, and still others who even believe that their own family are imposters. The study of neuropsychology is the study of how the brain functions to produce the behaviours and thought processes that we take so much for granted. Neuropsychology is the study of how the brain operates to produce the higher mental functions that broadly come under the headings of cognition, emotion and movement. The models used by neuropsychologists may be in terms of broad concepts that prompt pioneering research or they may be more specific in terms of describing interactions between brain areas within networks.
