Neuropsychology for Health Care Professionals and Attorneys, Second Edition 2nd New edition [Hardback]

Sbordone (examiner, American Board of Professional Neuropsychology) and Saul (neurology, UCLA, and Chief of Neurological Services at the California State Metropolitan Hospital) consider how neuropsychologists evaluate the intellectual, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional functioning of individuals with a suspected or known brain injury. The text contains a detailed analysis of neuropsychological testing, including critiques of widely used tests. It also includes an introduction to neuroanatomy, a glossary of technical terms, and four chapters devoted to specific neurobehavioral disorders like amnesia, attention deficits, dementia, learning disorders, and seizures. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Regardless of your specialty - physician, psychologist, nurse, rehabilitation specialist, or attorney -post-traumatic stress disorder cases and brain injury cases are arguably the most difficult to understand, treat, and evaluate. All of the tools you need are in the new Neuropsychology for Health Care Professionals and Attorneys, Second Edition.
It contains

An easy-to-understand description of the neuroanatomy of the brain

Four chapters devoted to neurobehavioral disorders such as amnesia, attentional deficits, delirium, dementia, disorders of executive functions of the brain, electrical injury, hypoxic encephalopathy, neurotoxic encephalopathy, learning disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), post-concussive syndrome, seizure disorders, and others

A detailed description of neuropsychological assessment, including a critique of approximately 80 neuropsychological tests: their intended use, purpose, administration, sensitivity to brain damage, reliability, validity, strengths, and limitations

How factors such as medical illness, medication, psychiatric disorders, stress, anxiety, culture, language, suboptimal motivation, and pre-existing neurological disorders can alter test performance

Ways to determine whether the neuropsychological test results are consistent with brain damage or due to non-neurological factors

A discussion of how the use of test norms can result in the misdiagnosis of brain damage

A critical review of actual neuropsychological reports

A glossary of neuropsychological and neurological terms