Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning (The Science and Practice of Neuropsychology)

While neuropsychological testing can accurately detect cognitive deficits in persons with brain injury, the ability to reliably predict how these individuals will function in everyday life has remained elusive. This authoritative volume brings together well-known experts to present recent advances in the neuropsychological assessment of key real-world capacities: the ability to live independently, work, manage medications, and drive a car. For each of these domains, contributors describe cutting-edge tests, procedures, and interpretive strategies and examine salient theoretical and methodological issues. Chapters also review approaches for evaluating specific populations, including older adults and patients with traumatic brain injury, depression, dementia, schizophrenia, and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. For neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, nurses, gerontologists, researchers, and graduate students, Marcotte and Grant (psychiatry, U. of California, San Diego) bring together 18 chapters on the neuropsychological foundations of everyday activities and approaches to evaluating daily functions. A group of North American contributors working in psychiatry, psychology, gerontology, neurology, occupational therapy, and sports medicine discuss examining real-world functioning from the perspectives of neuropsychology, human factors, and occupational therapy, including cross-cultural issues; the application of traditional neuropsychological tests; innovative performance-based test instruments and batteries that emphasize ecological validity; and approaches to evaluating the instrumental activities of daily living, vocational functioning, medication management, and automobile driving. The second section focuses on these activities in specific populations, including individuals with dementia and mild cognitive impairment, vascular dementia, traumatic brain injury, sports injuries and concussion, multiple sclerosis, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, depression, and schizophrenia, as well as normal aging processes This book has been replaced by Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning, Second Edition , ISBN 978-1-4625-4888-0.