John R Hodges

Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The updated third edition of Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians is a theoretically-motivated guide to the assessment of patients with cognitive complaints.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198749189
• ISBN-10: 019874918X
• Artikelnr.: 49140865

Autorenporträt

Professor John R. Hodges works at the Brain & Mind Centre at the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. He has a particular interest in memory, language and early onset dementia syndromes. He has authored over 300 peer reviewed papers and approximately 100 chapters and reviews. Professor Hodges has written books on transient amnesia, and cognitive assessment for clinicians, and co-authored, with Dr Berrios, a book on memory disorders and psychiatric practice. He recently edited the first textbook dedicated to early onset dementia syndromes. He was the founding co-editor of Neurocase and is now associate editor of Brain. He has also lectured extensively around the world.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Distributed cognitive functions
* 2: Delirium and dementia
* 3: Localized cognitive functions
* 4: Cognitive and neuropsychiatric history taking and tips on physical
examination
* 5: Testing cognitive function at the bedside
* 6: Standardized mental test schedules: their uses and abuses
* 7: The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-revised and supplementary
test suggestions
* 8: Illustrative cases
* Appendix