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Neurosurgical Neuropsychology: The Practical Application of Neuropsychology in the Neurosurgical Practice comprehensively explains the use of neuropsychology in neurosurgical settings. The book covers various preoperative techniques that may benefit neurosurgeons, such as functional neuroimaging (fMRI, SPECT, MEG) for presurgical cognitive mapping, as well as more traditional methods to predict outcomes after surgery, including neurocognitive testing and the Wada procedure. The book's editors discuss why neuropsychologists add considerable value to the neurosurgical team. A wide range of patient populations are covered, ranging from Deep Brain Stimulation candidates for Parkinson's disease, to adult and pediatric epilepsy candidates and neuro-oncology cases.
This book is ideal for neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, neuro-oncologists, epileptologists, general neurologists, and others who want to know more about the use of neuropsychology as a tool in the presurgical and postoperative phases of neurosurgery.
List of contents
Introduction
1. The historical role of neuropsychology in neurosurgery
2. Foundations of contemporary neuropsychology
3. Components and Methods of Evaluating Reliable Change in Cognitive Function
4. A primer on neuropsychology for the neurosurgeon
Methods
5. Functional Neuroimaging in the Presurgical Work-up
6. Wada Testing and neurosurgical patients
7. Awake craniotomy and bedside cognitive mapping in neurosurgery
Applications
8. Neuropsychology in adult epilepsy surgery
9. Neuropsychology in the Neurosurgical Management of Primary Brain Tumors
10. The Role of the Neuropsychologist in Deep Brain Stimulation
11. Future directions in deep brain stimulation
12. Neuropsychology in the outcome of severe traumatic brain injury
Treatment and Management
13. Neuropsychological rehabilitation
14. Assessment of functional status after neurosurgical intervention
About the author
Dr. Caleb Pearson is an associate professor in the departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is also the director of the Human Brain Mapping Program at the University of Kansas Health System and the chief of Epilepsy Neuropsychology. His work primarily includes pre-surgical risk stratification for patients suffering from epilepsy and brain tumors, as well as the use of functional MRI and tractography in neurosurgery.Dr. Ecklund-Johnson is a clinical neuropsychologist in the neuropsychology department at the University of Kansas Hospital and Associate Clinical Professor in the KUMC departments of Neurology and Psychiatry. He is board certified in clinical neuropsychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology and his clinical and research work has focused on cognitive assessment of surgical and non-surgical patients with known or suspected neurological problems including Parkinson's disease, other movement disorders, brain tumors, memory disorders, and traumatic brain injury, among other conditions.
Dr. Gale is a Professor at Brigham Young University. His research interests are largely centered in the field of neuropsychology, which is the study of brain-behavior relationships. He utilizes clinical and research techniques, including neurocognitive assessment and neuroimaging, as well as neuroepidemiological techniques, to investigate neurocognitive outcomes in various neurologic disorders including traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and dementia. More recently, He has become increasingly interested in the potential negative effects of (latent) infectious disease on neurocognitive functions and psychiatric illness.
