Neuropsychological evaluation of the older adult a clinician's guidebook
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- ISBN: 9780080537467 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0080537464 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780122981906
- ISBN: 0122981901
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1 online resource (xiv, 311 p.) : ill. - Publisher: San Diego, CA : Academic Press, c2000.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 |
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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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