Author: JOSÉ DERGAN Publisher: Ediciones de la U ISBN: 9587926005 Category : Psychology Languages : es Pages : 255
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En esta obra, el autor propone la creación de un modelo de análisis y tratamiento neuropsicológico de los disturbios de las funciones cerebrales que comúnmente afligen al adulto mayor. Siguiendo los lineamientos teórico-experimentales de la escuela neuropsicología de A.R.Luria, el Dr. Dergan propone un enfoque multifuncional en donde diversos factores biológicos, histórico-culturales e interpersonales, se interrelacionan como un ente holístico, jugando un papel determinante, no solo en la formación y desarrollo de sistemas evolutivos, empero también en la formación de patrones de desincronización de las funciones superiores psicológicas, comúnmente vistos en la involución.
Author: Karina Cerezo Huerta Publisher: Editorial El Manual Moderno ISBN: 6074488037 Category : Psychology Languages : es Pages : 117
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El libro Trastornos neurocognitivos en el adulto mayor: evaluación, diagnóstico e intervención neuropsicológica plantea con la mayor cantidad de evidencia científica posible los aportes que se han realizado en la conceptualización, la evaluación, el diagnóstico y la rehabilitación sobre el adulto mayor desde el área de la neuropsicología. El libro consta de cuatro apartados compuestos por 12 capítulos en donde se abordan diferentes temas como los cambios en la dinámica cerebral, en la cognición y el comportamiento durante el envejecimiento, la neuropsicología de las demencias, cuya clara estructura y abundancia de cuadros comparativos facilita su lectura y la labor del clínico a la hora de hacer el diagnóstico, o bien, se ofrece una revisión muy completa de los instrumentos más utilizados en la evaluación neuropsicológica de las personas mayores para hacer el diagnóstico diferencial de la demencia, sin dejar de insistir que la evaluación neuropsicológica va mucho más allá de la aplicación de pruebas y requiere de la valoración cualitativa. Sin duda este libro será de utilidad para estudiantes y profesionales de la psicología, la medicina, la enfermería, la neuropsicología y otras disciplinas dando herramientas auxiliares para la intervención neuropsicológica durante esta etapa de la vida.
Author: Mark Ylvisaker Publisher: ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 504
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Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Children and Adolescents provides rehabilitation professionals in all areas of rehabilitation with a comprehensive, interdisciplinary framework for treatment of brain-injured children and adolescents. The book begins with an explanation of the pathophysiology of closed head injury and its typical consequences, leads the reader through various clinical intervention and therapeutic techniques, and concludes with guidelines for re-integrating the child into school, family, and work communities. Drawing upon the authors' backgrounds in speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and neurology, the book presents a thorough discussion of all areas of head injury rehabilitation.
Author: Robert L. Mapou Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1475797095 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 398
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Practicing neuropsychologists and students in clinical neuropsychology must increas ingly cross disciplinary boundaries to understand and appreciate the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neuropharmacological bases of cognition and behavior, cur rent cognitive theory in many different domains of functioning, and the nature and tools of clinical assessment. Although the cognitive functions and abilities of interest are often the same, each of these fields has grappled with them from sometimes very different perspectives. Terminology is often specific to a particular discipline or ap proach, methods are diverse, and the goals or outcomes of study or investigation are usually very different. This book poises itself to provide a largely missing link between traditional approaches to assessment and the growing area of cognitive neuropsy chology. Historically, neuropsychology had as its central core the consideration of evidence from clinical cases. It was the early work of neurologists such as Broca, Wernicke, Hughlings-Jackson, and Liepmann, who evaluated and described the behavioral cor relates of prescribed lesions in individual patients and focused investigation on the lateralization and localization of cognitive abilities in humans. An outgrowth of those approaches was the systematic development of experimental tasks that could be used to elucidate the nature of cognitive changes in individuals with well-described brain lesions.
Author: Aubrey H. Fine Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 0122564308 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 607
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Practitioners seeking the most current advances in the field of ADHD and LD must often bridge the gap between research and practice. This title provides that bridge through the authors, who are both researchers and practitioners with extensive experience in providing direct services to children and adults with ADHD and LD.
Author: Perminder S. Sachdev Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0203970977 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 359
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When confronted with a neurological or psychiatric disorder in an elderly individual, a clinician or researcher is likely to ask how the processes of ageing have influenced the aetiology and presentation of the disorder, and will impact on its efficient management. There are many urban myths about ageing, and some of these apply to the brain. The reviews included in this book are an attempt to flush out some of these myths, and arm the clinician and general researcher with the empirical facts that can be mustered to substantiate claims about ageing. There are many salient questions: is cognitive change to be expected in an elderly individual? Is this change progressive, relentless and unselective, or is it focal and constrained? Would every person who lived long enough develop Alzheimer’s disease? Do our neurones die as we get old? What happens to the size of the brain and its metabolic activity? How do our hormones change with age? Can anti-oxidants slow or even stop the process of ageing? Are genes important in the ageing brain or is it all in the environment? How much of what we are is due to what we eat? The contributors to this book, each an expert in their field, have addressed some of these questions in a language simple enough for a general reader to understand. The book also deals with some of the most prominent brain disorders of old age - Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, vascular dementia, and depression. The focus is on the impact of ageing on these disorders. The discussions lay out a broad map for the clinician dealing with neuropsychiatric disorders, and the future researcher of brain ageing. In a field in which the developments are too numerous for any one individual to keep pace with, this book presents up-to-date summaries that can be a useful starting point. The field of brain ageing abounds in tabloid science. This book counters this by providing a strong empirical grounding and considered synthesis of the research.
Author: Cecil R. Reynolds Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1489968075 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 590
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The past decade has brought important advances in our understanding of the brain, particularly its influence on the behavior, emotions, and personality of children and adolescents. In the tradition of its predecessors, the third edition of the Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology enhances this understanding by emphasizing current best practice, up-to-date science, and emerging theoretical trends for a comprehensive review of the field. Along with the Handbook’s impressive coverage of normal development, pathology, and professional issues, brand-new chapters highlight critical topics in assessment, diagnostic, and treatment, including, The role and prevalence of brain dysfunction in ADHD, conduct disorder, the autistic spectrum, and other childhood disorders; The neuropsychology of learning disabilities; Assessment of Spanish-speaking children and youth; Using the PASS (planning, attention, simultaneous, successive) theory in neurological assessment; Forensic child neuropsychology; Interventions for pediatric coma. With singular range, timeliness, and clarity, the newly updated Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology reflects and addresses the ongoing concerns of practitioners as diverse as neuropsychologists, neurologists, clinical psychologists, pediatricians, and physical and speech-language therapists.
Author: Barbara A. Wilson Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1135431841 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 245
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The potential of behavioural approaches for improving the lives of people with acquired brain injury is immense. Here that potential is laid out and explored with a thoroughgoing regard for clinical practice and the theoretical frameworks that underpin that practice. This book will prove an invaluable resource for clinical psychologists and the whole range of therapists working with patients suffering from acquired brain damage.
Author: JOSÉ DERGAN
Author: Karina Cerezo Huerta
Author: Mark Ylvisaker
Author: David Wechsler
Author: Robert L. Mapou
Author: Aubrey H. Fine
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Author: Perminder S. Sachdev
Author: Cecil R. Reynolds
Author: Barbara A. Wilson