Neuropsychological Studies of Nonfocal Brain Damage Dementia and Trauma
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Springer Series in Neuropsychology
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Discussion
- Appendix 4.A: Language Samples from DAT Patients
- 5 Neuropsychological Assessment and Treatment of Head Trauma Patients
- The Problem
- Organic Factors
- Estimating Severity and Predicting Outcome
- The Recovery Model
- Preinjury Factors
- Cognitive Dysfunction
- Emotional Factors
- Social and Vocational Factors
- Rehabilitation
- 6 Automatic Processing of Frequency Information in Survivors of Severe Closed Head Injury
- Automatic/Effortful Framework
- Frequency Processing in Neurologically Intact Populations
- Studies of Frequency Processing in the Aged and Psychiatric/Neurological Groups
- Automatic and Effortful Processing in Survivors of Severe Closed Head Injury
- Implications of Automatic Processing Deficits for Amnesia
- 7 Linguistic Competence and Level of Cognitive Functioning in Adults with Traumatic Closed Head Injury
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
- Appendix 7.A
- 8 A Paradigm Shift in Memory Rehabilitation
- Traditional Approaches to Memory Rehabilitation
- Toward an Ecological Approach to Memory Rehabilitation
- Results of a Survey of Forgetting Experiences
- A Three-Pronged Approach to Memory Rehabilitation
- Conclusions
- 9 Closed Head Trauma: Somatic, Ophthalmic, and Cognitive Impairments in Nonhospitalized Patients
- Method
- Results
- Conclusions
- Appendix 9.A
- 10 Activation of Semantic Relations in Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s Disease
- Lexicosemantic Processing in HD
- Lexical and Semantic Priming in DAT
- General Discussion and Conclusions
- Author Index
- 1 The Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia: Clinical Issues
- Normal Aging
- The Dementias
- 2 Neuropsychological and Computed Tomographic Identification in Dementia
- Quantifying Cerebral Measurements
- Neuropsychological Findings in Dementia
- Neuropsychological-CT Scan Interrelationships
- Subgroup Analysis and Dementia: Neuropsychological, CT Scan, and Presenting Symptom Analysis
- Prediction of Deterioration
- Relationship of CT with Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography Scanning Techniques
- Summary
- 3 Dementia of the Alzheimer Type: Challenges of Definition and Clinical Diagnosis
- History of Clinical Diagnosis of DAT
- DAT Diagnostic Criteria
- Pathophysiological Correlates of DAT Clinical Manifestations
- Differential Diagnosis of DAT
- DAT and the Neurological Basis of Thought
- 4 Discourse Performance in Subjects with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type
- Subjects
- Materials and Methods
- Methods for Data Analysis
- Results