Practitioners Guide to Clinical Neuropsychology [Paperback]

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. Alzheimers Disease.- 41. Parkinsons Disease.- 42. Multiple Sclerosis.- 43. Huntingtons 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.Springer Book ArchivesGPSR ComplianceThe European Union's (EU) General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) is a set of rules that requires consumer products to be safe and our obligations to ensure this.If you have any concerns about our products you can contact us on ProductSafety@springernature.com.In case Publisher is established outside the EU, the EU authorized representative lҦ