Robert M. Anderson

Practitioner¿s Guide to Clinical Neuropsychology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author has written an easily accessible summary of neuropsychological tests, neuropsychiatric disorders, and the relationships of test performance to disorder and treatment strategy. This ready reference provides neuropsychologists with an understanding of the medical context within which neuropsychological evaluation and psychosocial therapy takes place.

Produktdetails

• Critical Issues in Neuropsychology
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands / Springer US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-306-44616-0
• 1994.
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780306446160
• ISBN-10: 0306446162
• Artikelnr.: 24553926

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction.- 1. Overview 2.- 2. Flexible Approaches.- 3. Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery.- 4. Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery.- 5. Neuropsychological Evaluations and Reports.- II. Factors that Influence Test Performance.- 6. Peripheral Motor and Sensory Impairments.- 7. Handedness.- 8. Aging.- 9. Education, Gender, and Ethnicity.- 10. Anxiety, Amotivation, and Fatigue.- III. Assessment Strategies and Instruments.- 11. Records Review.- 12. Interview.- 13. Behavioral Observations.- 14. Mental Status Evaluation.- 15. Orientation.- 16. Attention.- 17. Memory.- 18. Intelligence, General Knowledge, and Social Understanding.- 19. Speech and Language.- 20. Arithmetic.- 21. Visual-Spatial Functioning.- 22. Tactile Functioning.- 23. Motor Functioning.- 24. Executive Functioning.- 25. Malingering.- 26. Personality.- IV. Deficits, Competencies, and Disabilities.- 27. Deficit Determination.- 28. Self-Care and Independent Living.- 29. Driving.- 30. Academic and Vocational Functioning.- 31. Civil Competency Evaluations.- 32. Disability Evaluations.- V. Psychosocial Therapies.- 33. Coma Stimulation.- 34. Behavior Modification.- 35. Cognitive Rehabilitation.- 36. Psychotherapy: Individual, Family, and Group.- VI. Disorders.- 37. Closed Head Injury.- 38. Stroke.- 39. Epilepsy.- 40. Alzheimer's Disease.- 41. Parkinson's Disease.- 42. Multiple Sclerosis.- 43. Huntington's Disease.- 44. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.- 45. Human Immunodeficiency Virus.- 46. Brain Tumors.- 47. Anoxia-Hypoxia.- 48. Alcohol.- 49. Drugs and Neurotoxins.- 50. Schizophrenia.- 51. Depression.- About the Author.