Chapter 5 - The Lesioned Brain

Links and Media

Professor Elizabeth Warrington on the history of neuropsychology: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2A78BA76FF5699E8
An demonstration of transcranial magnetic stimulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtNPqCj-iA
A series of lectures at UCDavis on brain stimulation, particularly the newer method of tDCS, including the following two:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fz7r8VDV4o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUMUIXNeBRQ
A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Imaged Brain and Lesioned Brain”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5ItzWLeRA

A special edition of Cognitive Neuropsychology (1988), 5(5), is dedicated to methodological issues related to single case and group studies in neuropsychology.: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/beh/students-guide-to-cognitive-neuroscience-related-articles/
An overview of the method of brain stimulation known as tDCS is provided in this paper: Nitsche, M. A., Cohen, L. G., Wassermann, E. M., Priori, A., Lang, N., Antal, A., … Pascual-Leone, A. (2008). Transcranial direct current stimulation: State of the art 2008. Brain Stimulation, 1, 206–223.
A classic study in TMS research demonstrating how performance can sometimes be enhanced as well as impaired by brain stimulation: Walsh, V., Ellison, A., Battelli, L., & Cowey, A. (1998). Task-induced impairments and enhancements induced by magnetic stimulation of human area V5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 265, 537–543.