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Cognitive Assessment in the Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Head-Injured Adults

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Clinical Neuropsychology of Intervention

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The evaluation of the brain-injured client can be a complex endeavor, requiring an analysis of sensorimotor, cognitive, and interpersonal functioning as they are affected by a lesion or disease process. Often neuropsychological assessment is used to establish a differential diagnosis between “organic” and “psychological” etiologies, or to localize and/or lateralize the cerebral basis of disturbed psychological functioning. The neuropsychological evaluation may also be used to describe the client’s extra-assessment behavior and to predict relative success or disability in social, vocational, or educational roles. Only recently has neuropsychological assessment acquired an additional role: that of assessing a client’s functioning to aid in the development of treatment plans for the remediation of cognitive disorders.

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  1. Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA

    Barbara P. Uzzell Ph.D. (Clinical Neuropsychologist Research Assistant Professor) (Clinical Neuropsychologist Research Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

    Yigal Gross Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer Director of Development and Training) (Senior Lecturer Director of Development and Training)

  3. The Neuropsychological Unit for Treatment and Rehabilitation, Givatayim, Israel

    Yigal Gross Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer Director of Development and Training) (Senior Lecturer Director of Development and Training)

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Cicerone, K.D., Tupper, D.E. (1986). Cognitive Assessment in the Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Head-Injured Adults. In: Uzzell, B.P., Gross, Y. (eds) Clinical Neuropsychology of Intervention. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2291-7_4

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