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Neuropsychological evaluation of the older adult a clinician's guidebook

Summary: One of the largest patient populations seen by neuropsychologists are older adults suffering from problems associated with aging. This book provides a guide to neuropsychological clinicians called upon to assess this population. It details the phases and considerations in performing a neuropsychological assessment of an older patient.

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  • ISBN: 9780080537467 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0080537464 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780122981906
  • ISBN: 0122981901
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (xiv, 311 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: San Diego, CA : Academic Press, c2000.

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General Note:
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Multi-User.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-302) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Activities preceding patient arrival -- Clinical interview -- General principles and guidelines for formal testing -- Evaluation of general intellectual function, attention, executive function, verbal abilities, and visuospatial and visuoconstructive abilities -- Memory evaluation in older adults -- Neuropsychological profiles of common disorders affecting older adults I: Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration -- Neuropsychological profiles II: vascular disease, dementia with lewy bodies -- Neuropsychological profiles III: Parkinsonian disorders, corticobasal degeneration, Huntington's disease -- Neuropsychological profiles IV: traumatic brain injury, substance-related disorders, normal pressure hydrocephalus, metabolic and toxic disorders -- Assessment of depression during the neuropsychological evaluation -- Organizing and interpreting test findings -- Writing the evaluation report -- Providing feedback and planning follow-up services.
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Description based on print version record.
Subject: Brain damage -- Diagnosis
Older people -- Diseases -- Diagnosis
MEDICAL -- Geriatrics
Cerebrale stoornissen
Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Cognitieve stoornissen
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Gerontology
Neuropsychological tests -- Evaluation
Diagnostiek
Dementia -- diagnosis
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Genre: Electronic books.

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