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Evaluation of Cerebrovascular Diseasesels (Walsh, 1987). In lay terms, it is more commonly referred to as stroke and is one of the most common neurologic diseases of adult life (Adams & Victor, 1989). Stroke represents the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer (American Heart Association, 198

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Evaluation of Demyelinating and Degenerative Disordersrs that compose these categories, and particularly the degenerative category, are quite diverse. As the term implies, . is used to classify a group of disorders that involve degeneration of neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). Degenerative disorders include Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular

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Evaluation of Neoplastic Processescause they may initially present with strong signs of increases in intracranial pressure, strong focal neurologic signs, or seizure activity which can rapidly lead to medical care and treatment. Other neoplasms, however, may present very subtle signs which can be missed or ignored when the patient i

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Evaluation of Neuropsychiatric Disordersd currently only to referrals for evaluation of closed head injury (Grant & Adams, 1996). The well-informed reader may ask, particularly in this age of managed health care, what advantages are present in conducting neuropsychological evaluations with psychiatric patients given that the incidence of

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Neuropsychological Assessment of Abstract Reasoning. Thus, abstraction and problem-solving are not synonymous, and problems can be solved without abstraction. However, formation of an abstract concept is often the most elegant way of solving a problem. The word abstraction connotes abstracting some unifying idea or principle on the basis of observat

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Neuropsychological Assessment of Memory be disrupted by any number of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Memory deficits are often the first neuropsychological symptom in progressive dementing disorders and can be the only finding in disorders such as mild head trauma and multiple sclerosis. In addition, memory problems are among th

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Evaluation of Neoplastic Processesy disturbed populations, the presence of psychiatric or cognitive symptoms with such tumors is frequent; the exact symptoms depend upon such factors as the location of the tumor, the rate of growth, the stage of development, and the effects of brain organization and metabolism as a whole (Lishman, 1978).