Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology

Peter W. Halligan, Udo Kischka, John C. Marshall (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

856 Seiten

2003
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-852776-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Written and presented in a concise, structured, note-based style, this book is designed to provide a practical guide for those interested in the professional application of neuropsychological approaches and techniques in clinical practice. It covers the contribution that this approach can make to the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a range of brain disorders, as well as addressing the special considerations required when treating children and the elderly.

Inhalt

PART 1: HISTORICAL CONTEXT; 1. Neuropsychology: past, present and future; PART 2: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; 2. Basic concepts and principles of neuropsychological assessment; 3. The methodological and statistical foundations of neuropsychological assessment; 4. Principles of cognitive rehabilitation; PART 3: NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS; 5. Assessment of attention; 6. The rehabilitation of attentional deficits; 7. Assessment of perceptual disorders; 8. Recovery and treatment of sensory perceptual disorders; 9. Neuropsychological assessment of memory disorders; 10. The natural recovery and treatment of learning and memory disorders; 11. Assessment and treatment of disorders of visuospatial, imaginal and constructional processes; 12. Assessing disorders of awareness and representation of body parts; 13. Assessment of acquired spoken language disorders; 14. Treatment of spoken language disorders; 15. Neuropsychological assessment and treatment of disorders of reading; 16. Neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation of writing disorders; 17. Assessment of executive function; 18. The natural recovery and treatment of executive disorders; 19. Neuropsychological assessment and treatment of disorders of voluntary movement; 20. Assessment and treatment of calculation disorders; 21. Assessment and treatment of emotional disorders; 22. Assessment of rehabilitation of anosognosia and syndromes of impaired awareness; PART 4: DEVELOPMENTAL AND PAEDIATRIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; 23. Neuropsychological assessment of developmental disorders; 24. The treatment and rehabilitation of paediatric/developmental neuropsychological disorders; PART 5: NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; 25. Neuropsychopharmacology; PART 6: UNDERLYING MEDICAL DISORDERS; 26. The neuropsychology of vascular disorders; 27. Neuropsychological presentation and treatment of head injury and traumatic brain damage; 28. Neuropsychological presentation of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders; 29. Neuropsychological presentation and treatment of demyelinating disorders; 30. The neuropsychology of infectious and inflammatory brain disorders; 31. The neuropsychology of endocrine disorders; 32. Neuropsychological assessment and treatment of epilepsy; PART 7: NEUROPSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS; 33. The clinical presentation of neuropsychiatric disorders; 34. The clinical assessment of neuropsychiatric disorders; 35. Neuropsychological rehabilitation of schizophrenia; 36. Treatment and rehabilitation of neuropsychiatric disorders; PART 8: FORENSIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; 37. Forensic issues in neuropsychology; PART 9: FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY; 38. Functional neuroanatomy of spatial perception, spatial processes and attention; 39. Functional neuroanatomy of learning and memory; 40. Functional neuroanatomy of language disorders; 41. Functional neuroanatomy of executive processes; PART 10: CLINICAL CONTEXT AND RESOURCES; 42. Clinical and laboratory examinations relevant to clinical neuropsychology; 43. Neuropsychological deficits within the World Health Organization's model of illness (ICIDH-2); 44. The internet and clinical neuropsychology

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2003
• Zusatzinfo: 46ill.6figs.tabs.
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 168 x 240 mm
• Gewicht: 1785 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• ISBN-10: 0-19-852776-4 / 0198527764
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852776-3 / 9780198527763
• Zustand: Neuware