Titlebook: Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment; A Cognitive Approach Robert L. Mapou,Jack Spector Book 1995 Springer Science+Business Media New Yor

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A Cognitive Framework for Neuropsychological Assessmenttient’s cognitive strengths and deficits (Hartman, 1991; Leonberger, 1989; Mapou, 1988b), in order to understand a patient’s neurobehavioral competencies. Because of this increased focus on the patterns of cognitive dysfunction associated with brain disorder, it has become increasingly important to

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Integrating Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychologyave in common is neither a specific set of procedures nor a particular theoretical model, but rather an endorsement of cognitively based neuropsychological assessment methods. These methods emphasize the assessment of individual cognitive processes, in order to understand the nature of brain—behavio

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230006263orically, clinical neuropsychological assessment has been used to evaluate brain—behavior relationships in individuals who have suffered or are believed to have suffered brain dysfunction. Results have been used largely for diagnosis, including lateralization and localization of lesions. Increasingl

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230006263ctions suffer. This cognitive machinery is typically described and conceptually divided by hypothetical constructs such as memory, language, and attention. These constructs are not unitary entities but, rather, constitute integrated medleys of more elemental processes.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230006263r. Although there are numerous neuropsychological measures to examine these abilities, no single test captures their full complexity. The skills necessary for performing behaviors such as planning, hypothesis testing, and self-monitoring are interrelated and often subtle. Successful performance depe

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-181-9think, and to communicate with each other. Language has a complex structure, and its use involves many diverse, interacting psychological operations. This chapter describes the progress that has been made in understanding language processing and its disorders, and presents an approach to the diagnos

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-181-9ifferent kinds of brain damage. Reading impairment is characteristic of almost all patients with acquired aphasia (Goodglass & Kaplan, 1983), and reading disorders persist chronically in the overwhelming majority of these aphasic patients (Webb & Love, 1983). Detailed assessment of the pattern of ac

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Yasuko Tsunetsugu-Yokota MD, PhDJackson (1876/1958) described a patient whose course of illness confirmed his speculations about the lateralization of higher visual function. The clinical onset of illness in Jackson’s patient was marked by a sudden episode of spatial disorientation. Although the patient had resided in the same nei

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-181-9on symptoms and neuropsychological deficits in neurological and psychiatric patients (Kapur, 1988; Spreen & Strauss, 1991). Learning and memory can be impaired in the context of relatively normal intellectual functions in the organic amnesias; alternatively, learning and memory can be impaired in th