Author: ISBN : Product Detai New from Format: PDFFrom translating the patient’s medical records and test results to providing recommendations, the neuropsychological evaluation incorporates the science and practice of neuropsychology, neurology, and psychological sciences. The Little Black Book of Neuropsychology brings the practice and study of neuropsychology into concise step-by-step focus—without skimping on scientific quality. This one-of-a-kind assessment reference complements standard textbooks by outlining signs, symptoms, and complaints according to neuropsychological domain (such as memory, language, or executive function), with descriptions of possible deficits involved, inpatient and outpatient assessment methods, and possible etiologies.
Additional chapters offer a more traditional approach to evaluation, discussing specific neurological disorders and diseases in terms of their clinical features, neuroanatomical correlates, and assessment and treatment considerations. Chapters in psychometrics provide for initial understanding of brain-behavior interpretation as well as more advanced principals for neuropsychology practice including new diagnostic concepts and analysis of change in performance over time. For the trainee, beginning clinician or seasoned expert, this user-friendly presentation incorporating ‘quick reference guides’ throughout which will add to the practice armentarium of beginning and seasoned clinicians alike. Key features of The Black Book of Neuropsychology:
- Concise framework for understanding the neuropsychological referral.
- Symptoms/syndromes presented in a handy outline format, with dozens of charts and tables.
- Review of basic neurobehavioral examination procedure.
- Attention to professional issues, including advances in psychometrics and diagnoses, including tables for reliable change for many commonly used tests.
- Special “Writing Reports like You Mean It” section and guidelines for answering referral questions.
- Includes appendices of practical information, including neuropsychological formulary.
The Little Black Book of Neuropsychology is an indispensable resource for the range of practitioners and scientists interested in brain-behavior relationships. Particular emphasis is provided for trainees in neuropsychology and neuropsychologists. However, the easy to use format and concise presentation is likely to be of particular value to interns, residents, and fellows studying neurology, neurological surgery, psychiatry, and nurses. Finally, teachers of neuropsychological and neurological assessment may also find this book useful as a classroom text.
"There is no other book in the field that covers the scope of material that is inside this comprehensive text. The work might be best summed up as being a clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral residency in a book, with the most up to date information available, so that it is also an indispensible book for practicing neuropsychologists in addition to students and residents…There is really no book like this available today. It skillfully brings together the most important foundationsof clinical neuropsychology with the 'nuts and bolts' of every facet of assessment. It also reminds the more weathered neuropsychologists among us of the essential value of neuropsychological assessment…the impact of the disease on the patient’s cognitive functioning and behavior may only be objectively quantified through a neuropsychological assessment."
Arch Clin Neuropsychol (2011)first published online June 13, 2011
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I held back writing this review for 6 weeks, hoping that my email to Springer might prompt them to submit some type of update; but they have not. The one, major problem for anyone thinking about purchasing the kindle edition of the book is this: there is NO TABLE of CONTENTS!! Really. Obviously, the hard copy book has one, but the lack of a TOC in a ebook basically renders it worthless. You either have to read the thing straight through (not was this book was meant for, by the way)and highlight things you would like to return to manually or simply try to enter random page locations hoping you find the right material (good luck with that given there are over 10,000 "locations" you could enter). So bottom line is this: I have no idea if this book is any good because the publisher made a GLARING error in not providing a TOC. Colleagues with the hard copy had recommended it, and since I prefer to purchase electronic texts when available, I did so with this book. Big mistake (and I have over 30 kindle edition texts, all have usable, hyperlinked TOC's).By Brain Doc
If this is your compulsory textbook, the many spelling errors in it (in-text and in most illustrations) may interfere with your grades. Some are quite obvious, others not. Examples are countless like "salutatory conduction" (pg 63), galea apeneurotic (pg 65); Medulla, Oblongata; Acressory [nerve], Vestibulochochlear [nerve]; locus cerelus (pg 67); spinthalamic tract, interntal globus pallidus (Fig 3.4), Infundiudulum, perieto-occipital sulcus, subnstance, [optic] chaism, (Fig 3.6), Atruim, lack of capitalization of names (Fig 3.8), internateromedial (Table 3.1), corpus colossum (pg 122), etc, etc, etc.By VM Westerberg
Not that anybody seems to have noticed, but this is not a good thing and l wonder how good, non-medical graduates' knowledge of neuroanatomy is to be able to identify all the mistakes and revert them to the correct term/s. If the book had any, this is the poorest proofreading and peer-editing ever. If Springer releases a new, safe-to-use edition, l want one sent for free to compensate for the defective one l had to buy.
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