Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment

1. Front Matter

   Pages N3-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Robert L. Mapou

      Pages 1-13

3. Assessment of Specific Functions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Assessment of Attention across the Lifespan

      • Allan F. Mirsky, Bryan D. Fantie, Janet E. Tatman

      Pages 17-48

   3. Assessment of Problem Solving and Executive Functions

      • Felicia C. Goldstein, Robert C. Green

      Pages 49-81

   4. Language Disorders

      • David Caplan

      Pages 83-113

   5. A Cognitive Neuropsychological Framework for Assessing Reading Disorders

      • Guila Glosser, Rhonda B. Friedman

      Pages 115-136

   6. Assessment of Visuocognitive Processes

      • Daniel X. Capruso, Kerry deS. Hamsher, Arthur L. Benton

      Pages 137-183

   7. Assessment of Learning and Memory

      • Glenn J. Larrabee, Thomas H. Crook III

      Pages 185-213

4. Selected Approaches to Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. The Approach of A. R. Luria to Neuropsychological Assessment

      • Kasper Jørgensen, Anne-Lise Christensen

      Pages 217-236

   3. Cognitive Neuropsychology and Assessment

      • Janice Kay, Sue Franklin

      Pages 237-268

   4. A Hypothesis-Testing Approach to Assessment

      • Kevin W. Walsh

      Pages 269-291

5. Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293

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   2. A Cognitive Framework for Neuropsychological Assessment

      • Robert L. Mapou

      Pages 295-337

   3. Integrating Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychology

      • Jack Spector

      Pages 339-354

6. Back Matter

   Pages 355-362

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Practicing neuropsychologists and students in clinical neuropsychology must increas­ ingly cross disciplinary boundaries to understand and appreciate the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neuropharmacological bases of cognition and behavior, cur­ rent cognitive theory in many different domains of functioning, and the nature and tools of clinical assessment. Although the cognitive functions and abilities of interest are often the same, each of these fields has grappled with them from sometimes very different perspectives. Terminology is often specific to a particular discipline or ap­ proach, methods are diverse, and the goals or outcomes of study or investigation are usually very different. This book poises itself to provide a largely missing link between traditional approaches to assessment and the growing area of cognitive neuropsy­ chology. Historically, neuropsychology had as its central core the consideration of evidence from clinical cases. It was the early work of neurologists such as Broca, Wernicke, Hughlings-Jackson, and Liepmann, who evaluated and described the behavioral cor­ relates of prescribed lesions in individual patients and focused investigation on the lateralization and localization of cognitive abilities in humans. An outgrowth of those approaches was the systematic development of experimental tasks that could be used to elucidate the nature of cognitive changes in individuals with well-described brain lesions.

• attention
• clinical neuropsychology
• memory
• neuropsychology
• psychology

`The book is a useful introduction to the main current problems of neuropsychological assessment.'
Neuropsychologia

`This book does more than fill a gap; it provides a needed link between rich and growing cognitive neuropsychology literature and the practice of clinical neuropsychology.'
from the Foreword by Catherine A. Mateer

• Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, USA

  Robert L. Mapou

• Division of Neurosurgery and Department of Psychology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, USA

  Jack Spector

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