A Guide to Adult Neuropsychological Diagnosis / Edition 1

by Robert C. Green, Anthony Y. Stringer

Overview

The goal of this volume is to establish a common frame of reference fo r health professionals to reduce vague or imprecise use of terms. The author describes clear criteria for a comprehensive array of adult neu rophysiological disorders, including clinical indicators, associated f eatures, factors to rule out, and lesion locations. For each disorder, the author describes common assessment tools in terms of their reliab ility and validity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803600720
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	06/28/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Stringer, Anthony Y., PhD (Emory Univ)

The contributor is from the department of neurology at Emory.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Alison W. Brett, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This handbook provides a descriptive classification of major adult neuropsychological disorders and reviews appropriate assessment tools for each.
Purpose: The goal is to establish a common frame of reference for health professionals to reduce vague or imprecise use of terms. The author describes clear criteria for a comprehensive array of adult neuropsychological disorders, including clinical indicators, associated features, factors to rule out, and lesion locations. For each disorder, the author describes common assessment tools in terms of their reliability and validity.
Audience: This book will be useful for healthcare practitioners and researchers concerned with neuropsychological disorders and is appropriate for advanced graduate or medical students.
Features: A key feature of the book is four separate indexes, by anatomy, etiology, test name, and behavior, to allow readers quick and easy access to information. The author supports his classification scheme with thorough references from research literature of the past 10 years. He provides a table to cross reference his categories with DSM-III-R and DSM-IV categories.
Assessment: I highly recommend this book to clinicians and researchers treating adult neuropsychological disorders. It provides clear diagnostic criteria for a comprehensive range of disorders. The review of assessment tests includes succinct descriptions and summaries of known reliability and validity data, enabling clinicians to quickly select appropriate instruments. The author supports his classification scheme with references to current research.

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4 Stars! from Doody

This handbook provides a descriptive classification of major adult neuropsychological disorders and reviews appropriate assessment tools for each. The goal is to establish a common frame of reference for health professionals to reduce vague or imprecise use of terms. The author describes clear criteria for a comprehensive array of adult neuropsychological disorders, including clinical indicators, associated features, factors to rule out, and lesion locations. For each disorder, the author describes common assessment tools in terms of their reliability and validity. This book will be useful for healthcare practitioners and researchers concerned with neuropsychological disorders and is appropriate for advanced graduate or medical students. A key feature of the book is four separate indexes, by anatomy, etiology, test name, and behavior, to allow readers quick and easy access to information. The author supports his classification scheme with thorough references from research literature of the past 10 years. He provides a table to cross reference his categories with DSM-III-R and DSM-IV categories. I highly recommend this book to clinicians and researchers treating adult neuropsychological disorders. It provides clear diagnostic criteria for a comprehensive range of disorders. The review of assessment tests includes succinct descriptions and summaries of known reliability and validity data, enabling clinicians to quickly select appropriate instruments. The author supports his classification scheme with references to current research.

Alison W. Brett

Proposed as an initial step toward creasing a common frame of reference for the disparate health-care professionals involved in neuropsychological diagnosis. Defines operationally and as objectively as possible clinical indicators for over 140 disorders, but also identifies the factors that must be ruled out before such a diagnosis is made. For each class of disorder also lists associated descriptive features, lesion locations, etiologies, potential disabling consequences, assessment instruments and procedures, and treatment approaches. Includes anatomical and etiological indexes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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