Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

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1. The Neuropsychology of Asian Americans

   Edited by Daryl E.M. Fujii

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   This volume is the first comprehensive resource to assist neuropsychologists to provide culturally competent services to Asian Americans. It highlights pertinent historical socio-cultural characteristics of the largest Asian American ethnic groups, which helps to...

   Published September 7th 2010 by Psychology Press
2. Neurobehavioral Toxicology: Neurological and Neuropsychological Perspectives, Volume III

   Central Nervous System

   By Stanley Berent, James W. Albers

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   This is the final volume in a three-volume work that has addressed the scientific methodologies relevant to clinical neurobehavioral toxicology. Volume I focused on basic concepts and methodologies in Neurobehavioral Toxicology, with Volume II focusing on the peripheral nervous system. Volume III...

   Published November 17th 2008 by Taylor & Francis
3. Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes

   A Lifespan Perspective

   Edited by Vicki Anderson, Rani Jacobs, Peter J. Anderson

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   This volume has as its primary aim the examination of issues concerning executive function and frontal lobe development. While many texts have addressed these issues, this is the first to do so within a specifically developmental framework. This area of cognitive function has received increasing...

   Published June 1st 2008 by Psychology Press
4. The Behavioural and Emotional Complications of Traumatic Brain Injury

   By Simon F. Crowe

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   It is difficult to imagine what it must be like for someone following the personal crisis and catastrophe that ensues as a result of a serious traumatic brain injury (TBI). The individual is confronted with a huge range of alterations in his or her normal functioning, operating at the...

   Published February 27th 2008 by Psychology Press
5. Information Processing Speed in Clinical Populations

   Edited by John DeLuca, Jessica H. Kalmar

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   Although investigated for over 100 years, it is only now that we are beginning to understand how speed of information processing is affected in various clinical populations. Processing speed has a major impact on higher level cognitive abilities and is extremely vulnerable to neurological insult...

   Published September 11th 2007 by Psychology Press
6. Neuropsychology and Substance Use

   State-of-the-Art and Future Directions

   Edited by Ari Kalechstein, Wilfred G. van Gorp

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   Substance use continues to be a major public health problem, and the ramifications of this are manifold. For instance, at present, on a yearly basis, the total economic cost of substance misuse is literally hundreds of billions of dollars. These costs are related to a number of factors, including,...

   Published April 19th 2007 by Psychology Press
7. Cognitive Reserve

   Theory and Applications

   Edited by Yaakov Stern

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   Cognitive reserve has emerged as a powerful concept for interpreting individual differences in susceptibility to, and recovery from, brain injury or pathology. Underlying cognitive reserve is the idea that individual differences in how cognitive tasks are mediated in the brain allow some people to...

   Published October 29th 2006 by Psychology Press
8. Mild Cognitive Impairment

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Holly A. Tuokko, David F. Hultsch

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) has been identified as an important clinical transition between normal aging and the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Since treatments for AD are most likely to be most effective early in the course of the disease, MCI has become a topic of great importance...

   Published September 13th 2006 by Psychology Press
9. The Quantified Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment

   Edited by Amir M. Poreh

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   Since the late 1800s psychologists have been interested in discerning the strategies subjects employ to solve psychological tests (Piaget, 1928, Werner, 1940, Gesell, 1941). Much of this work, however, has relied on qualitative observations. In the 1970s, Edith Kaplan adopted this approach to the...

   Published May 25th 2006 by Psychology Press
10. Brain Injury Treatment

    Theories and Practices

    By Jose Leon-Carrion, Klaus R. H. von Wild, George A. Zitnay

    Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

    Brain Injury Treatment: Theories and Practices is a thorough and wide-ranging account of the rehabilitation of brain injury. Written from an international perspective, this book presents a detailed discussion of the basic science of brain injury. It explains the treatments used in brain injury...

    Published March 22nd 2006 by Taylor & Francis