Neuropsychology News & Updates – Page 2

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    Check Out Our Neuropsychology and Language Disorders 2013 Online Catalog!

    We have put together an online catalog filled with upcoming, new, backlist, and Paperback Direct Neuropsychology and Language Disorders books published by Psychology Press, Routledge, and Guilford Press.

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    Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior

    Explore the brain and discover the clinical and pharmacological issues surrounding drug abuse and dependence. The authors, research scientists with years of experience in alcohol and drug studies, provide definitions, historic discoveries about the nervous system, and original, eye-catching illustrations to discuss the brain/behavior relationship, basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the mechanistic actions of mood-altering drugs.

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    Errorless Learning and Rehabilitation of Language and Memory Impairments

    This special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation brings together seven newly published studies from a range of invited international researchers in the fields of language and memory disorders and their rehabilitation.

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    Alzheimer’s Meta-Review: Women Deteriorate More Quickly Than Men

    Widely covered in the global media, new research from our Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology shows that women afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease tend to suffer a more rapid decline than men.

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    Current Issues in Developmental Disorders

    Cognitive development in children is a highly complex process which, while remarkably resilient, can be disrupted in a variety of ways. This volume focuses on two types of neurodevelopmental disorder: syndromic conditions such as fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome and velocardiofacial syndrome; and non-syndromic conditions including dyslexia, specific language impairment, autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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    Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitation for Everyday Adaptive Living, 2nd Edition

    The past 15 years have seen many developments in the knowledge, research and rehabilitation of individuals following traumatic brain injury (TBI). The second edition of this book provides an updated guide for health professionals working with individuals with such injuries.

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    Clinical Neuropsychological Foundations of Schizophrenia

    This volume is the first practitioner-oriented source of information on the neuropsychology of schizophrenia that conveys the growth in the field in terms of what is known about cognition in schizophrenia, its assessment, and how this informs clinical practice.

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    BCoS Cognitive Screen Test

    BCoS (Birmingham Cognitive Screen) is a new test instrument developed to screen patients for cognitive problems following brain damage. It provides a novel 'cognitive profile' across a range of cognitive processes within a one-hour testing session that will indicate whether a patient has a clinical impairment (related to norms) in five primary domains of cognition:

    • Attention and executive function
    • Language
    • Memory
    • Number skills
    • Praxis and action.
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    Free Article: ‘Modular Processes in Mind and Brain’ by Saul Sternberg

    In this outstanding new article Saul Sternberg extends his classic methods for using behavioral measures to decompose mental processes by showing how brain-based measures can now be used to derive inferences about the organization of both cognitive and neural processes.

    At over 50 pages in length this article is an essential contribution to the literature on brain specialization and modularity, a must read for anyone interested in Cognitive Psychology or Neuropsychology.

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    Cognitive Neuropsychology Student Travel Awards – winners!

    To recognize and promote outstanding work by young researchers in the field, the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology has announced the first three winners of its Student Travel Awards.

    Congratulations to Jacqueline Snow, Gilles Vannuscorps and Joris Vangeneugden! The winners will receive awards of up to USD $750 to assist travel costs for attending the conference where they’ll present their work. The three successful abstracts were selected on the basis of their scientific merit and for their contribution to the field of Cognitive Neuropsychology.