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Neuropsychology: A Review of Science and Practice provides a comprehensive and critical review of the recent literature in selected topics in the discipline of neuropsychology. The chapters, written by authors with histories of scholarship and expertise, review recent articles applicable to neuropsychology and related disciplines, and have sufficient theoretical importance to influence practice and the direction of future investigations.
List of contents
- Preface to Volume III
- Contributors
- 1. Studies in Cannabis Use: Year in Review
- Ileana Pacheco- Colon, Jacqueline C. Duperrouzel, and Raul Gonzalez
- 2. Hypertension and Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Review and Update
- Richard F. Kaplan and Lauren Strainge
- 3. Technologically Enhanced Neuropsychological Assessments: Review and Update
- Thomas D. Parsons and Robert Kane
- 4. Cross-Cultural Tests in Neuropsychology: A Review of Recent Studies and a Modest Proposal
- Alberto Luis Fernandez and Bernice A. Marcopulos
- 5. Interventions for Functional Impairments
- Alyssa Weakley and Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe
- 6. Recent Research Trends in the Neuropsychology of HIV Disease
- David P. Sheppard, Savanna T. Tierney, Kelli L. Sullivan, Victoria M. Kordovski, Gunes Avci, and Steven Paul Woods
- 7. Parkinson's Disease: Recent Strides
- Alexander I. Troster
- 8. Pediatric Epilepsy Update
- Madison M. Berl
- Index
About the author
Sandra Koffler PhD, ABPP-CN, is Emeritus Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine
E. Mark Mahone, PhD, ABPP, is Vice President for Neuropsychology and Related Services, Director - Department of Neuropsychology, Director - Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute
Bernice Marcopulos, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at James Madison University
Douglas Johnson-Green, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Miami
Glenn Smith PhD, ABPP-CN, is Chair and Elizabeth Faulk Endowed Professor, University of Florida Health
Summary
Compiled reviews of the recent literature are a long established tradition in the laboratory and clinical sciences, and bring to their professions a useful and timely summary of the advances that have been made in the field. Neuropsychology has matured as a science and profession to support a like effort to summarize, across domains, the direction and momentum in the field. The authors are authorities in the subjects they review and provide for the investigator, practitioner and student an overview of the important developments in neuropsychology that cannot be realized from perusal of the journals alone.
Interest in the reviews are likely to go beyond the discipline of neuropsychology, and will extend to all with an interest in science of brain-behavior relationships, in the study of disease and injury as they affect brain function, and in the rehabilitation of the individual who has suffered insult to brain. Chapters cover the pragmatic application of tests and test findings to improve our understanding of the behavior of individuals who present with neurocognitive disorders.
Where there is interest in efficiently acquiring a sound perspective of the important advances and the future direction of neuropsychology, Neuropsychology: A Review of Science and Practice will provide the means for so doing as no other publication can offer.
