The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Issues in Development and Rehabilitation

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Developmental and Rehabilitative Issues in the Neuropsychology of Everyday Life

   1. Introduction: Developmental and Rehabilitative Issues in the Neuropsychology of Everyday Life

      • David E. Tupper, Keith D. Cicerone

      Pages 1-14

3. Life Span Developmental Neuropsychology

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Neuropsychology of Childhood Learning and School Behavior

      • Louise S. Kiessling

      Pages 17-43

   3. The Neuropsychological Determinants of Functional Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

      • Richard Gallagher, Ursula Kirk

      Pages 45-92

   4. Cognition and Watching Television

      • John J. Burns, Daniel R. Anderson

      Pages 93-108

   5. Epilepsy in Children and Adults

      • Richard C. Delaney, Mary L. Prevey

      Pages 109-133

   6. Assessment of Everyday Functioning in Normal and Malignant Memory Disordered Elderly

      • Holly A. Tuokko, David J. Crockett

      Pages 135-181

   7. Life Span Perspective on Practical Intelligence

      • Sherry L. Willis, Michael Marsiske

      Pages 183-197

4. Issues in Rehabilitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. A Rationale for Family Involvement in Long-Term Traumatic Head Injury Rehabilitation

      • Harvey E. Jacobs

      Pages 201-213

   3. Psychosocial Consequences of Significant Brain Injury

      • Mary Pepping, James R. Roueche

      Pages 215-256

   4. Working: The Key to Normalization after Brain Injury

      • Patricia L. Price, William L. Baumann

      Pages 257-269

   5. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Treatment of Errors in Everyday Functioning

      • Keith D. Cicerone, David E. Tupper

      Pages 271-292

   6. Long-Term Ajustment to Traumatic Bain Injury

      • Inger Vibeke Thomsen

      Pages 293-309

5. Back Matter

   Pages 311-313

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For a period of some fifteen years following completion of my internship training in clinical psychology (1950-1951) at the Washington University School of Medicine and my concurrent successful navigation through that school's neuroanatomy course, clinical work in neuropsychology for me and the psychologists of my generation consisted almost exclusively of our trying to help our physician colleagues differentiate patients with neurologic disorders from those with psychiatric disorders. In time, experience led all of us from the several disciplines involved in this enterprise to the conclusion that the crude diagnostic techniques available to us circa 1945-1965 had garnered little valid information on which to base such complex, differential diagnostic decisions. It now is gratifying to look back and review the remarkable progress that has occurred in the field of clinical neuropsychology in the four decades since I was a graduate student. In the late 1940s such pioneers as Ward Halstead, Alexander Luria, George Yacorzynski, Hans-Lukas Teuber, and Arthur Benton already were involved in clinical studies that, by the late 1960s, would markedly have improved the quality of clinical practice. However, the only psychological tests that the clinical psychologist of my immediate post­ Second Wodd War generation had as aids for the diagnosis of neurologically based conditions involving cognitive deficit were such old standbys as the Wechsler-Bellevue, Rorschach, Draw A Person, Bender Gestalt, and Graham Kendall Memory for Designs Test.

• assessment
• clinical neuropsychology
• diagnosis
• intelligence
• neuropsychology
• psychiatric disorder
• psychology
• rehabilitation

• New Medico Rehabilitation and Skilled, Nursing Center of Troy, Troy, USA

  David E. Tupper

• Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College, Albany, USA

  David E. Tupper

• The Center for Head Injuries, Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Edison, USA

  Keith D. Cicerone

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