Aging and Neuropsychological Assessment

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Springer Science & Business Media, 31. kol 1992. - Broj stranica: 369
It is a privilege to be asked to write the foreword for so excellent a book, so timely and so much needed by the field. Not only is it most unusual these days to have a single authored volume on so broad a topic, but Dr. La Rue has done a superb job of providing both a scholarly treatise and a practical handbook. With a burgeoning elderly population and the corresponding increase in geriatric psychopathology, the needs of mental health services are exceeding by far the supply of appropriate providers. In an effort to meet this need, psychiatry, medicine, neurology, pharmacology, psychology, nursing, and social work have all made the provision of training in geriatrics and gerontology a high priority-but I fear we are losing the race. For example, multidisciplinary teams that assess, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders in elderly patients are incomplete without clinical psychologists and neuropsy chologists, and yet there is barely a handful of clinical psychologists trained in dealing with geriatric patients. We can count on our fingers the additional ones graduated each year. In hospitals, clinics, and private practices across the country, otherwise skilled psychologists are unprepared to respond to the special mental health needs of the elderly. A few CME programs are helping to address this need, but they are clearly not enough.

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INTRODUCTION TO AGING AND OLDER ADULTS
3
Chapter
12
Contemporary Older Adults
15
Summary and Conclusions
22
Chapter 2
25
Neurophysiological Changes
38
Summary and Conclusions
45
Attention
53
Clinical Features and Course
169
Neuropsychological Findings
177
Chapter 8
199
Dementia in PD
206
Summary and Conclusions
219
Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Features
225
Chapter 10
239
Cognitive Impairment and Parkinsons Disease
248

Language
62
Problem Solving and Executive Functions
67
Chapter 4
79
Individualized Batteries
86
Brief and Extended Test Batteries
117
Summary and Conclusions
139
AN OVERVIEW
143
Dementia
151
Summary and Conclusions
161
Summary and Conclusions
256
Neuropsychological Findings
269
Dementia Syndrome of Depression
281
Summary and Conclusions
288
CASE EXAMPLES
291
REFERENCES
313
INDEX
359
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