Neuropsychology Books

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11. Prediction in Forensic and Neuropsychology

    Sound Statistical Practices

    Edited by Ronald D. Franklin

    Psychologists are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the ecological validity of their assessment procedures--to show that the recommendations concluding their evaluations are relevant to urgent concerns in the legal and social policy arenas, such as predicting dangerousness, awarding...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
12. Introduction to Neuropsychotherapy

    Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Patients Throughout the Lifespan

    Edited by Ritva Laaksonen, Mervi Ranta

    This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical overview and clinical guidelines for the application of neuropsychotherapy. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining neuropsychological knowledge with recent conceptualizations from neuroscience and psychotherapy, with special emphasis on...

    Published February 12th 2013 by Psychology Press
13. Model Systems and the Neurobiology of Associative Learning

    A Festschrift in Honor of Richard F. Thompson

    Edited by Joseph E. Steinmetz, Mark A. Gluck, Paul R. Solomon

    This volume contains a collection of papers written by former students, postdoctoral fellows, and colleagues of Richard Thompson and represent written versions of papers presented at the Festschrift symposium. The Festschrift provided an excellent opportunity for the participants to recount their...

    Published February 12th 2013 by Psychology Press
14. Nutrition and Mental Health

    By Ruth Leyse-Wallace

    Although primary advanced vitamin and mineral deficiencies are rare in the developed world, many common health conditions deplete nutritional status, including sub-optimal dietary intake, frequent alcohol consumption, changes in appetite due to aging, food allergies or sensitivities, special diets,...

    Published January 28th 2013 by CRC Press
15. The Clinical Management of Early Alzheimer's Disease

    A Handbook

    Edited by Reinhild Mulligan, Martial Van der Linden, Anne-Claude Juillerat

    The enormous human and economic toll of Alzheimer's Disease in societies in which more and more people are living into old age is well-recognized. Scientists and practitioners alike have been working to limit it. Their major focus has been patients in the later stages of the disease, when dementia...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Psychology Press
16. Investigations in Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics

    Edited by Fay Windsor, M. Louise Kelly, Nigel Hewlett

    Investigations in Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics is a sequel to the eighth meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, attended by delegates from 26 different countries. This book reflects the scope of the subject area of clinical phonetics and linguistics, the...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
17. The Equilibrium of Human Syntax

    Symmetries in the Brain

    By Andrea Moro

    Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

    This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
18. Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning

    Edited by Albert Gollhofer, Wolfgang Taube, Jens Bo Nielsen

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    The Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of neurophysiological, behavioural and biomechanical aspects of motor function. Adopting an integrative approach, it examines the full range of key topics in contemporary human movement...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
19. Developmental Neuropsychology

    By Janna Glozman

    Series: Explorations in Developmental Psychology

    Developmental Neuropsychology draws upon the research of Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky to present a comprehensive study of developmental neuropsychology from a Russian, and Western perspective. Janna Glozman offers a fresh and accessible analysis of Luria and Vygotsky’s collaboration, which...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
20. Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning

    By Siegfried Engelmann, Donald Steely

    This ambitious, highly theoretical book provides a capstone for the careers of two very distinguished scholars. It begins with an analysis of what functions and systems must exist for any organism or machine to perform an unlearned act, that is, with an analysis of what must be "wired into" the...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Psychology Press