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| Preface | |
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| Activities Preceding Patient Arrival | |
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| Clarifying the Referral Question | |
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| The Preevaluation Letter | |
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| Reviewing Records of Previous History | |
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| The Clinical Interview | |
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| Introducing the Evaluation and Establishing Rapport | |
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| Identifying Concerns about the Patient | |
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| The General Inquiry | |
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| The Specific Inquiry | |
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| Obtaining the Background History | |
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| Medical History | |
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| Educational, Occupational, and Family History | |
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| Using the Interview to Evaluate the Patient | |
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| Awareness of Cognitive Change or Other Unusual Behaviors | |
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| Affect | |
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| Expressive and Receptive Language | |
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| Memory for Personal History | |
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| Concluding the Interview and Transitioning to Formal Testing | |
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| General Principles and Guidelines for Formal Testing | |
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| Screening Sensory Abilities | |
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| Optimizing the Test Environment | |
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| Orienting the Patient to Testing | |
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| Guidelines for Use of Psychometrists | |
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| Principles of Test Design: Reliability and Validity | |
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| Choosing Normative Data for Older Individuals | |
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| Selecting the Test Battery | |
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| Evaluation of General Intellectual Function, Attention, Executive Function, Verbal Abilities, and Visuospatial and Visuoconstructive Abilities | |
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| Assessment of General Intellectual Function | |
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| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III | |
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| Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence | |
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| Dementia Rating Scale | |
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| Tests of Specific Abilities | |
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| Attention and Executive Function | |
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| Verbal Abilities | |
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| Visuospatial and Visuoconstructive Abilities | |
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| Memory Evaluation in Older Adults | |
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| Memory Systems: Declarative and Nondeclarative Memory | |
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| A Model of Remembering New Information | |
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| Dimensions for Clinical Assessment of Memory | |
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| Test Instruments for Evaluation of Memory | |
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| WMS-III Information and Orientation | |
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| WMS-III Logical Memory (LM) | |
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| WMS-III Word Lists | |
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| WMS-III Visual Reproduction | |
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| Neuropsychological Profiles of Common Disorders Affecting Older Adults I: Alzheimer's Disease, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration | |
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| Definition of Dementia | |
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| Cortical and Subcortical Dementia Syndromes | |
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| Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Background | |
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| Neuropsychological Characteristics of Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Alzheimer's Disease Subtypes | |
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| Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration | |
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| Background | |
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| Frontotemporal Dementia | |
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| Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia | |
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| Semantic Dementia | |
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| Distinguishing Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration from Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Neuropsychological Profiles II: Vascular Disease, Dementia with Lewy Bodies | |
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| Cerebrovascular Disease and Vascular Dementia | |
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| Background | |
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| Neuropsychology of Cerebrovascular Disease | |
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| Vascular Dementia | |
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| Differentiating between Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Neuropsychiatry of Cerebrovascular Disease | |
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| Dementia with Lewy Bodies | |
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| Background | |
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| Neuropsychological Characteristics of Dementia with Lewy Bodies | |
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| Neuropsychological Profiles III: Parkinsonian Disorders, Corticobasal Degeneration, Huntington's Disease | |
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| Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Diagnosis and Clinical Characteristics | |
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| Special Issues in Evaluation of Patients with Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Neuropsychological Function in Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Variables Affecting Neuropsychological Function in Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Dementia in Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Neuropsychiatric Disorder in Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Other Parkinsonian Syndromes with Neuropsychological Correlates | |
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| Progressive Supranuclear Palsy | |
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| Multiple System Atrophy | |
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| Corticobasal Degeneration | |
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| Huntington's Disease | |
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| Neuropsychological Features of Huntington's Disease | |
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| Neuropsychiatric Features | |
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| Neuropsychological Profiles IV: Traumatic Brain Injury, Substance-Related Disorders, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Metabolic and Toxic Disorders | |
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| Traumatic Brain Injury | |
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| Background | |
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| Neuropsychological Correlates of Traumatic Brain Injury in Older Adults | |
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| Neuropsychological Differences between Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Substance-Related Disorders | |
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| Background | |
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| Assessing Substance-Related Disorders during the Clinical Interview | |
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| Brain Changes Associated with Alcohol-Related Disorders | |
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| Neuropsychological Changes Associated with Alcohol-Related Disorders | |
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| Neuropsychological Changes Associated with Medication Use | |
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| Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus | |
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| Metabolic and Toxic Disorders | |
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| Assessment of Depression during the Neuropsychological Evaluation | |
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| Criteria for Diagnosing Depression | |
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| Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Characteristics of Depression in Older Adults | |
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| Assessing Depression during the Clinical Interview | |
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| Instruments for Screening for Depression | |
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| Neuropsychological Profiles of Depression | |
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| Depression and Brain Disease | |
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| The Concept of Pseudodementia | |
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| Differentiating Depression from Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neuropsychological Change | |
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| Organizing and Interpreting Test Findings | |
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| Computing Raw Test Scores | |
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| Computing z-Scores | |
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| Compiling the Neuropsychology Data Summary Sheet | |
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| Approaches to Estimating Premorbid Abilities | |
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| Best Performance Method | |
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| "Hold" Scores | |
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| Demographic Equations | |
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| Historical Data | |
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| Guidelines for Estimating Premorbid Abilities | |
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| Interpreting Test Findings | |
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| Interpreting Each Test Score | |
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| Interpreting Test Scores Relative to Premorbid Ability | |
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| Identifying the Neuropsychological Profile | |
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| Identifying Change on Reevaluation | |
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| Writing the Evaluation Report | |
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| Report Header | |
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| Referral and Background Information | |
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| Behavioral Observations | |
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| Tests Administered | |
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| Test Results | |
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| Impressions and Recommendations | |
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| Providing Feedback and Planning Follow-up Services | |
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| Organizing the Feedback Session | |
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| Clinical Considerations Important to Providing Feedback | |
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| Describing Neuropsychological Strengths and Weaknesses and Reasons for Change | |
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| Discussing Treatment Alternatives, Patient Care, and Follow-up Services | |
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| Addressing Interpersonal and Family System Issues | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Preevaluation Letter | |
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| Informed Consent for Neuropsychological Evaluation | |
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| Neuropsychological Interview | |
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| Behavioral Observations | |
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| Neuropsychology Data Summary Sheet | |
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| Outline of the Report of the Neuropsychological Evaluation | |
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| Patient Cases | |
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| Basic Brain Neuroanatomy | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |