Advances In Clinical Neuropsychology

Author : Gerald Goldstein,Ralph E. Tarter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461322115

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Advances in Clinical Neuropsychology by Gerald Goldstein,Ralph E. Tarter Pdf

This third volume of the Advances in Clinical Neuropsy chology series returns to the style of the first volume in that it contains contributions representing a diversity of areas. Within this diversity there are chapters covering specific disease entities of neuropsychological interest: cardiovascular diseases, Huntington's disease, head trauma in children, and hepatic encephalopathy. There are contributions in the area of neurobehavioral assessment; one involving the CT scan and the other the Luria-Ne braska Neuropsychologi cal Te st Ba ttery. Finally, there are several empirical reviews, including discussions of sex differences in brain function, the neuropsy chology of emotion, the relation between neuropsychological test results and patients' complaints of disability, and mechanisms of amnesia. Thus, this volume clearly continues the tradition established in previous volumes with regard to con~aining material that is both basic science and clinically oriented. The edi tors acknowledge the support of the Veterans Administration medical research program and the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. We also appreciate the participation and effort of the chapter authors. And finally, we must again express our gratitude to Kathy Lou Edwards for her outstanding editorial, text compos iting, and administrative efforts. February:, 1986 Gerald Goldstein, Ph.D. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ralph E. Tarter, Ph.D.

Author : Gerald Goldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Neuropsychiatry
ISBN : OCLC:504600149

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Advances in Clinical Neuropsychology by Gerald Goldstein Pdf

Author : Ralph Tarter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461398448

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Advances in Clinical Neuropsychology by Ralph Tarter Pdf

This second volume of the series Advances in Clinical Neuro psychology addresses the neurological and neuropsychological dis orders that are seen most frequently in children. The book begins with a discussion of normal and abnormal brain development. From there, neurological and neuropsychological assessment methods are described and evaluated. The main body of the text is concerned with reviewing the major childhood disorders, and includes discus sions of brain trauma, dyslexia, minimal brain dysfunction, mental retardation and epilepsy. These latter conditions adversely impact on psychosocial development and limit educational attain ment. Approaching these disorders from a neurobehavioral perspec tive, therefore, potentially has ramifications for improving detection and assessment procedures, as well as for developing .new intervention strategies. This book continues the tradition of the first volume in that the contents include topics that address basic research, as well as clinical problems. It is hoped that this combination will encourage the professional to integrate research and clinical application in guiding their investigative activities or clinical endeavors.

Author : Gerald Goldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630552596

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Advances in clinical neuropsychology by Gerald Goldstein Pdf

Author : Thomas D. Parsons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319310756

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Clinical Neuropsychology and Technology by Thomas D. Parsons Pdf

This ambitious and accessible guide reviews innovative technologies enhancing the field of neuropsychological testing. Starting with the premise that standard batteries—some nearly a century old—lag behind in our era of neuroimaging, genomic studies, psychophysiology, and informatics, it presents digital measures offering more efficient administration, more accurate data, and wider clinical applications. Ecological validity and evidence-based science are key themes in these advances, from virtual environments and assessment of social cognition to the shift toward situational reliability and away from lab-created constructs. These chapters also demonstrate how high-tech assessment tools can complement or supplement traditional pencil-and-paper measures without replacing them outright. This book covers in depth: · The evolution of neuropsychological testing over the past century. · Current applications of computer-based neuropsychological assessments. · The strengths and limitations of simulation technology. · The use of teleneuropsychology in reaching remote clients. · The potential of gaming technologies in neurocognitive rehabilitation. · How technology can transform test data into information useful across specialties. Clinical Neuropsychology and Technology brings neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, and rehabilitation specialists into the vanguard of assessment measures and processes that will translate into more accurate testing, collaborations between disciplines, and valid and useful outcomes.

Author : Robert L. Kane,Thomas D. Parsons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190234737

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The Role of Technology in Clinical Neuropsychology by Robert L. Kane,Thomas D. Parsons Pdf

Neuropsychology as a field has been slow to embrace and exploit the potential offered by technology to either make the assessment process more efficient or to develop new capabilities that augment the assessment of cognition. The Role of Technology in Clinical Neuropsychology details current efforts to use technology to enhance cognitive assessment with an emphasis on developing expanded capabilities for clinical assessment. The first sections of the book provide an overview of current approaches to computerized assessment along with newer technologies to assess behavior. The next series of chapters explores the use of novel technologies and approaches in cognitive assessment as they relate to developments in telemedicine, mobile health, and remote monitoring including developing smart environments. While still largely office-based, health care is increasingly moving out of the office with an increased emphasis on connecting patients with providers, and providers with other providers, remotely. Chapters also address the use of technology to enhance cognitive rehabilitation by implementing conceptually-based games to teach cognitive strategies and virtual environments to measure outcomes. Next, the chapters explore the use of virtual reality and scenario-based assessment to capture critical aspects of performance not assessed by traditional means and the implementation of neurobiological metrics to enhance patient assessment. Chapters also address the use of imaging to better define cognitive skills and assessment methods along with the integration of cognitive assessment with imaging to define the functioning of brain networks. The final section of the book discusses the ethical and methodological considerations needed for adopting advanced technologies for neuropsychological assessment. Authored by numerous leading figures in the field of neuropsychology, this volume emphasizes the critical role that virtual environments, neuroimaging, and data analytics will play as clinical neuropsychology moves forward in the future.

Author : Domenic V Cicchetti,Byron P Rourke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9026519648

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Methodological and Biostatistical Foundations of Clinical Neuropsychology and Medical and Health Disciplines by Domenic V Cicchetti,Byron P Rourke Pdf

The goal of the second edition is to introduce the advance undergraduate or graduate student and more seasoned research scientists in any of the allied health sciences to a wide array of methodological and biostatistical issues, as they occur in the context of both published and ongoing research. Some sixty-four articles published between 1992 and 2002 have been selected from the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, and Child Neuropsychology and reproduced in this volume. While building upon a working knowledge and understanding of the basic univariate data analytic techniques and the research designs to which they apply, the approach to the more complex multivariate techniques is presented primarily at a conceptual and essentially non-mathematical level. While the issue of the complexity of some of the more recent and standard approaches to data analytic strategies, and their important role to specific research designs is important to convey, there remains an even more fundamental issue of whether the results of correctly applied data analytic strategies make any practical or clinical sense, above and beyond their having reached levels of "statistical significance". These critical issues are addressed throughout various commentaries that the editors make at appropriate points in the text. The volume will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as clinical neuropsychologists and research scientists in any of the allied health disciplines.

Author : John R. Crawford,Denis M. Parker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475799965

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Developments in Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology by John R. Crawford,Denis M. Parker Pdf

The chapters published in this volume developed from presentations, and their associated discussions at a conference organised by the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, held at Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland in September 1987. The goal of the conference was to bring together workers across a wide area of neuropsychological research to discuss recent technological advances, developments in assessment and rehabilitation, and to address theoretical issues of current interest. Thus, the chapters in this book include contributions on the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography in neuropsychological research, studies of hemi spheric specialisation and cooperation, alcoholic and Alzheimer type dementia, prosopagnosia and facial processing, the assessment, management and rehabilitation of memory problems, the assessment of premorbid intellectual status and issues in developmental neuropsychology. Many of those engaged in research and clinical practice in neuropsychology encounter a range of topic at least as wide as this in their professional lives. The opportunity for researchers and clinicians to discuss some of the key issues in the field was invaluable and we hope that readers gain as much from the material presented here as the participants did from the meeting itself.

Author : Charles J. Golden,P.J. Vicente
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461336792

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Foundations of Clinical Neuropsychology by Charles J. Golden,P.J. Vicente Pdf

In the last decade, neuropsychology has grown from a small subspecialty to a major component in the practice of clinical and medical psychology. This growth has been caused by advances in psychological testing (such as the Halstead-Reitan neuropsychological battery, as discussed in Chapter 5) that have made evaluation techniques in the field available to a wider audience, by advances in neuroradiol ogy and related medical areas that have enabled us to better understand the struc ture and function of the brain in living individuals without significant potential harm to those individuals, and by increased interest by psychologists and other scientists in the role that the brain plays in determining behavior. Many disorders that were believed by many to be caused purely by learning or environment have been shown to relate, at least in some cases, to brain dysfunction or damage. With the growth of the field, there has been increased interest in the work of neuropsychologists by many who are not in the field.

Author : Benjamin Lahey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461398233

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Advances in Clinical Child Psychology by Benjamin Lahey Pdf

Advances in Clinical Child Psychology is a serial publication designed to bring together original summaries of the most important new develop ments in the field of clinical psychology and its related disciplines. Each chapter is written by a key figure in an innovative area of research or by an individual who is particularly well qualified to comment on a topic of major contemporary importance. These chapters provide convenient, concise explorations of empirical and clinical advances in the field. The chapter topics are chosen by the editors and are based on sug gestions by the advisory editors, unsolicited suggestions provided by colleagues, and from all of our reading of the latest published empirical and theoretical works. As such, it reflects our collective perception of the trends that are leading the field of clinical child psychology. Those trends are clearly evident in Volume 9. Two chapters describe the cur rent state of the art of intellectual and neuropsychological measurement. Two chapters discuss the classification and origins of the two types of attention deficit disorders. And one chapter focuses on the developmen tal importance of adolescence in child and family dysfunctions. But the overwhelming theme of this volume is the relationship between biolog ical and psychological variables. In choosing these chapters, we believe that we are merely reflecting the changing nature of research in the field.

Author : Jan Leslie Holtz
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780826104748

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Applied Clinical Neuropsychology by Jan Leslie Holtz Pdf

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Author : Michael Peter Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351530880

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Brain and Behavior by Michael Peter Smith Pdf

Research in the field of clinical neuropsychology has greatly advanced understanding of the complex relationships between brain functions and human behavior. This edited collection, originally published in the early days of this dynamic field, draws from the findings of clinical study, animal experimentation, and developmental observation to clarify the relationships between brain and behavior. The result is a report on the state of knowledge at that time, and a barometer of how far the field has come. The book's contributors include some of the leading figures in the field of human and developmental neuropsychology. They present comprehensive reviews of salient topics on which they themselves have done important investigative work. An introduction by Klaus Poeck describes the historical evolution of clinical neuropsychology and discusses the status of the field from both substantive and methodological standpoints. George Ettlinger and Colin Blakemore describe understanding of inter-hemispheric relations as demonstrated by studies in animals and man. Sidney Weinstein discusses the phenomenon of the "phantom" in patients with amputated body parts and its implications for the concept of body image. Norman Geschwind, who was instrumental in reviving interest in the anatomical approach to aphasia, focuses on some unsolved anatomical problems and suggests needed clinical and experimental study. Arthur L. Benton outlines questions concerning constructional apraxia. Josephine Semmes offers a brilliant reformulation on whether there are discrete basic types of somatosensory function. Luigi Vignolo presents a masterful analysis of the concept of auditory agnosia and describes his own research in this area. Concentrating on a few important problem areas, each of which is intensively probed, this book offers valuable insight into how research advances understanding of the neuroanatomical bases of behavior.

Author : Ida Sue Baron, PhD,Celiane Rey-Casserly, PhD
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199829322

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Pediatric Neuropsychology by Ida Sue Baron, PhD,Celiane Rey-Casserly, PhD Pdf

This volume updates the reader about historical and current medical care for both common and rare pediatric medical conditions/disorders, and neuropsychological outcomes for children once unlikely to survive or overcome associated adverse effects of their condition.

Author : MD Kenneth M. Heilman,Edward Valenstein, MD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195384871

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Clinical Neuropsychology by MD Kenneth M. Heilman,Edward Valenstein, MD Pdf

Since its first publication in 1979, Clinical Neuropsychology has been a valued resource for students and scientists interested in brain-behavior relationships. The text covers all of the major syndromes, but reflects the major advances in understanding and treatment of neurobehavioral disorders since the previous edition was published.

Author : Robert M. Anderson Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461524809

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Practitioner’s Guide to Clinical Neuropsychology by Robert M. Anderson Jr. Pdf

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.