Neuropsychology Arena

Birmingham Cognitive Screen

• By Glyn Humphreys, Wai-Ling Bickerton, Dana Samson and Jane Riddoch.

Published March 2012

Following different kinds of brain damage, including stroke, head injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, degenerative change, people can experience a range of cognitive problems, in addition to any difficulties in motor function. These problems strongly influence a patient’s ability to recover from a…
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Single-case and Small-n Experimental Designs

A Practical Guide To Randomization Tests, Second Edition

• By Pat Dugard, Portia File and Jonathan Todman.

Published October 2011

This practical guide explains the use of randomization tests and provides example designs and macros for implementation in IBM SPSS and Excel. It reviews the theory and practice of single-case and small-n designs so readers can draw valid causal inferences from small-scale clinical studies. The…
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Contemporary Neurobehavioral Syndromes

• Edited by Gerald Goldstein, Theresa M. Incagnoli and Antonio E. Puente.

Published April 2011

During the twentieth century, new neurobehavioral diseases appeared or were described for the first time. Exposure to certain toxins or noxious environments, for example, produced illnesses that did not exist before the twentieth century. In addition, established illnesses were reconceptualized…
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Therapeutic Processes for Communication Disorders

A Guide for Clinicians and Students

• Edited by Robert J. Fourie.

Published November 2010

Why do many people with disorders of communication experience a sense of demoralization? Do these subjective experiences have any bearing on how such problems should be treated? How can professionals dealing with speech, language, hearing and other communication disorders analyse and respond to the…
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Rehabilitation of Visual Disorders After Brain Injury

2nd Edition

• By Josef Zihl.

Published October 2010

This thoroughly updated and extended edition covers the various cerebral visual disorders acquired after brain injury, as well as the rehabilitation techniques used to treat them. These are described within a brain plasticity framework, using data from single and group case studies along with…
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A Compendium of Tests, Scales and Questionnaires

The Practitioner’s Guide to Measuring Outcomes after Acquired Brain Impairment

• By Robyn L. Tate.

Published April 2010

This Compendium is a comprehensive reference manual containing an extensive selection of instruments developed to measure signs and symptoms commonly encountered in neurological conditions, both progressive and non-progressive. It provides a repository of established instruments, as well as…
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New Methodologies for Intervention and Outcome Measurement

A Special Issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

• Edited by James Malec.

Published December 2009

Neuropsychological rehabilitation involves many complex processes aimed at enabling people who are disabled by brain injury or disease to achieve their optimum level of physical, psychological, social and vocational well being. Theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and measures for evaluating the…
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Rehabilitation of Neuropsychological Disorders

A Practical Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals

• Edited by Brick Johnstone, and Henry H. Stonnington.

Published March 2009

Many contemporary neuropsychology texts focus on neuropathology, the description of specific tests, and the differential diagnosis of central nervous system disorders. However, increasingly sophisticated neuroradiological techniques, managed care factors, and the growth of rehabilitation…
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Progressive Language Impairments: Intervention and Management

A Special Issue of Aphasiology

• Edited by Lyndsey Nickels, and Karen Croot.

Published March 2009

Progressive language impairments comprise a broad range of symptoms of impaired language processing that worsen over time as a result of neurodegenerative disease, and that range from impaired knowledge of the concepts underlying language through reading and writing difficulties to impaired ability…
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Dementia

From Diagnosis to Management - A Functional Approach

• By Michelle S. Bourgeois, and Ellen Hickey.

Published February 2009

Dementia: From Diagnosis to Management - A Functional Approach is a comprehensive description of a functional and behavioral approach to assessing and treating persons with dementia. While very practical, the information is embedded in a scientific context of the causes, neuropsychological…
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