Many new insights and research findings about brain-behaviour, neurological disorders, neurodiagnostic issues, and neuropsychological assessment procedures are imcorporated into this third edition of Neuropsychological Assessment . Well known as the "bible" in its field, this book now contains more than double the number of references in the ...
"Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment, Second Edition" is a practical reference source for neuropsychologists, interns, and trainees working in hospitals. With over 100 quick-reference tables, lists, diagrams, photos, and decision trees, this book offers guidance through the complicated decision-making processes of assessment ...
The second edition of this book has been thoroughly updated to cover new developments in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and psychological assessment. It includes new chapters on test selection, report writing and informing the client, executive functions, occupational interest and aptitude, and the assessment of functional complaints. In ...
Every chapter has been updated to reflect current thought and research in the field. Chapters devoted to specialized tests in neuropsychology have been updated to reflect new editions of these popular instruments. Special topic chapters have been added such as working in pediatric coma rehabilitation, using the planning, attention, sequential, ...
The purpose of this book is to provide a compendium of the possible interpretations that can be used with each of a variety of common tests usually included in a neuropsychological test battery. The first chapter discusses some of the pitfalls and cautions when comparing tests, while the second chapter examines administrative and scoring issues ...
In order to understand how the human brain functions, one must first understand its structure and mechanics. This exciting collection of methods offers proven techniques for productive work in this fast-paced field. Contributors - all widely known for their mastery of the major methods described here - have been specially selected to share their ...
For the practicing neuropsychologist or researcher, keeping up with the sheer number of newly published or updated neuropsychological tests is a challenge, as is evaluating the utility and psychometric properties of each test in a clinical context. The goal of the thrid edition of A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests, a well-established ...
When Handbook of Normative Data for Neuropsychological Assessment was published in 1999, it was the first book to provide neuropsychologists with summaries and critiques of normative data for neuropsychological tests. The Second Edition, which has been revised and updated throughout, presents data for 26 commonly used neuropsychological tests, ...
It has been almost a decade since the First Edition of this book was published. While the authors have retained the same general structure-with the addition of a set of three chapters on psychosocial outcomes-virtually the entire book has been rewritten. There are two new chapters on the Iowa-Benton approach and on computers and memory in Part I. ...
No other book reviews clinical neuropsychological assessment from an empirical psychometric perspective. In this completely revised and updated second edition, the concepts and methods of psychometric neuropsychology are presented as a framework by which to evaluate current instruments. Newer methodologies and statistical techniques are discussed ...
Psychologists are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the ecological validity of their assessment procedures - to show that the recommendations concluding their evaluations are relevant to urgent concerns in the legal and social policy arenas, such as predicting dangerousness, awarding compensation, and choosing a custodial parent. How much ...
This volume is intended to serve as an aid in the process of differential diagnosis which frequently confronts neuropsychologists. The guide is a compendium of information of the base rates of symptoms across a variety of disorders which neuropsychologists encounter. In addition to serving as a convenient source of information on symptom base ...
This handbook provides up-to-date information on the assessment of the effects of numerous biopsychosocial variables in modulating brain function and dysfunction. It is a text intended for the graduate and postgraduate student.
Neuropsychological assessment is a difficult and complicated process. Often experienced clinicians as well as trainees and students gloss over fundamental problems or fail to consider potential sources of error. Since formal test data on the surface appear unambiguous and objective, they may fall into the habit of overemphasizing tests and their ...
Until now, clinical neuropsychologists had few guidelines to assist them in determining if a change in a patient's performance across assessments was due to an intervention, maturation, practice effects or a combination of factors. The editors of "Practitioner's Guide to Evaluating Change With Neuropsychological Assessment Instruments" have done a ...
In the ten years since the first edition of this book appeared, many new findings have been generated in a variety of clinical and research contexts. The new edition of this successful text summarizes this research and adds normative data on new populations including children and the elderly. It therefore offers an updated coverage of the clinical ...
This book outlines the major neuropsychological approaches to the assessment of patients and examines the rationales underlying each one. It then provides rigorous reviews of clinical and research findings on the neuropsychology of the common neuropsychiatric disorders and their treatment.
This clinical introduction to the neural effects of ageing provides new insights into the effects of ageing on the brain and behaviour and serves as a guide to the psychological assessment of older patients. Dr. La Rue focuses on the most common neuropsychiatric disorders and uses numerous case studies to demonstrate the applications of different ...
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of neurobehavioural issues in stroke. In addition to presenting neurological and neuropsychological studies of cerebrovascular disease, it offers tutorials on the methods of imaging brain structure and measuring metabolism and blood flow. After reviewing the basic biochemical and pathophysiologic ...
Written by a multi-disciplinary team of experts in neurobehaviour, this concise, well-illustrated book provides long-awaited normative data on clock drawing from ages 20 to 90 years. A practical guide to the quantitative assessment of clock drawing, it also takes a process-oriented approach to qualitative impairment. The authors discuss clock ...
This comprehensive and up-to-date book brings together leading authorities to cover the entire spectrum of instruments, techniques, standardized measures, and procedures used to diagnose and measure the psychological and physiological aftermath of
This unique sourcebook describes the research methods used to study human brain function and brain-behaviour relationships. These range from relatively simple approaches, such as dichotic listening and tachistoscopic presentation, to computerized techniques such as cerebral blood flow measurements. The description of each method covers the ...
This practical volume covers all aspects of the neuropsychological assessment of children, adults, and the elderly. Three sections deal with-developmental considerations-the various neurobehavioral disorders-and specialized assessment of individual cognitive functions, including abstraction, memory, language, spatial perception, and motor skills. ...
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
