Top Results for Neuropsychology

Michael Gazzaniga is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for research on people whose cerebral hemispheres were surgically disconnected to treat severe epilepsy. Working in the split-brain research tradition established with Roger Sperry, he helped show how the hemispheres can process informa...

Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese American neuroscientist whose research examines emotion, decision-making, consciousness, and the neural basis of the self. His somatic marker hypothesis proposes that bodily signals associated with emotion help guide choices, especially under uncertainty. Drawing part...

Oliver Sacks was a British-born neurologist and author who lived and practiced in the United States. He wrote narrative case studies about people experiencing unusual neurological conditions, connecting clinical observation with questions about identity, perception, memory, and adaptation. His books...

The Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology is an extensive academic reference work published by Springer that covers the scientific study of brain-behavior relationships. It provides detailed, peer-reviewed entries on the assessment, diagnosis, and rehabilitation of cognitive and neurological diso...

Chris Frith is a British neuropsychologist known for using cognitive experiments and neuroimaging to study schizophrenia, social cognition, and conscious action. His research has examined how people distinguish self-generated actions from external events, a process called the sense of agency, and ho...

V. S. Ramachandran is an Indian-born neuroscientist known for research in behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics at the University of California, San Diego. He studied phantom limbs, body representation, synesthesia, and neurological conditions using relatively simple experimental methods. He...