**Meet the editor**

Julio Fernando Prieto Peres is a neuroscientist and a psychologist with twenty years of clinical experience. As a clinician-researcher, he combines psychology with neuroscience and develops his interest in the neurobiological consequences of psychotherapy, having used functional neuroimaging to show the cerebral effects of subjective processing mediated by psychotherapy as part of his doc-

torate and two postdoctoral programs. Julio earned a PhD in Neuroscience and Behavior from the Institute of Psychology at Universidade de São Paulo, and post-doctorates in Diagnostic Imaging from the University of Pennsylvania and Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). His published work includes papers on psychotherapy, resilience, coping, and functional neuroimaging. In addition to his research at the Institute of Psychiatry at Universidade de São Paulo, he is the professor in charge of Clinical Psychotraumatology training for doctors and psychologists at Hospital Pérola Byington. Author of the book Trauma e Superação [Trauma and Coping] published in Brazil by Roca.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Amnestic Disorders 1** 

Chapter 1 **Neuroimaging in Dementia** 

**Part 2 Sexual Disorders 71** 

**Part 3 Systems & Networks 87** 

**and Other Amnestic Disorders 3**  Leonardo Caixeta, Bruno Galafassi Ghini

Chapter 2 **Degeneration of the Human Nervous System** 

**and Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging 15**  Lulé Dorothée and Ludolph Albert Christian

**with Cognitive Neuroscience Methods 37**  Jinglong Wu, Chunlin Li and Jiajia Yang

**of Sexual Stimuli Processing in Paedophilia 73** 

**Histochemical Techniques and Abeta42 Specific Peptides 59**  Thomas van Groen, Inga Kadish, Aileen Funke and Dieter Willbold

Chapter 4 **Staining of Amyloid Beta (Abeta) Using (Immuno)** 

and Julio F. P. Peres, PsyD, PhD.

Chapter 3 **Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease** 

Chapter 5 **Magnetic Resonance Techniques in Study** 

Juan Antonio Becerra-García

Chapter 6 **Functional Anatomy, Physiology and** 

Edward Jacek Gorzelańczyk

**Clinical Aspects of Basal Ganglia 89** 

Chapter 7 **Cognitive Integration in the Human Primary Sensory and Motor Areas: An Overview 107**  Jozina B. De Graaf and Mireille Bonnard
