Overview
- Features 14 all-new chapters of directly applicable clinical information
- Offers experience-based medical wisdom from seasoned clinians
- Highlights clinical pearls of practical value throughout
Part of the book series: Clinical Handbooks in Neuropsychology (CHNEURO)
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About this book
This comprehensive update offers practical advice for professionals working in
neuropsychology with older adults. Focusing on fundamentals, common issues,
special considerations, and late-life cognitive disorders, respected names in this critical
specialty address a wide range of presenting problems and assessment, diagnostic,
and treatment concerns. Th roughout, coverage pays keen attention to detail, bringing
real-world nuance to large-scale concepts and breaking down complex processes into
digestible steps. And like its predecessor, the new Handbook features recommendations
for test batteries and ends each chapter by extracting its “clinical pearls.”
A sampling of the topics covered:
• Assessment of depression and anxiety in older adults.
• The assessment of change: serial assessments in dementia evaluations.
• Elder abuse identifi cation in older adults.• Clinical assessment of postoperative cognitive decline.
• Cognitive training and rehabilitation in aging and dementia.
• Diff erentiating mild cognitive impairment and cognitive changes of normal
aging.
• Evaluating cognition in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
This Second Edition of the Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia
offers a wealth of expert knowledge and hands-on guidance for neuropsychologists,
gerontologists, social workers, and other clinicians interested in aging. Th is can be a
valuable reference for those studying for board certifi cation in neuropsychology as well
as a resource for veteran practitioners brushing up on key concepts in neuropsychology
of age related disorders.
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Keywords
- Alzheirmer's disease
- cognitive reserve
- elder abuse in dementia
- dementia evaluation
- cognitive aging and dementia
- sleep and aging
- depressoin and anxiety in older adults
- mild cognitive impairment and normal aging
- evaluation of older ethnic minority patients
- assessment in acute stroke rehabilitation
- alteration of cerebral blood flow
- movement disorders with dementia
- dementia with language disorders
- behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
- assessment of late onset schizophrenia
- chronic traumatic encephalopathy
- cardiology and cognition
- cancer and dementia
- postoperative cognitive changes in elderly
Table of contents (43 chapters)
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Late Life Cognitive Disorders
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lisa Ravdin Rosenberg, Ph.D., ABPP is a board-certified neuropsychologist and Director of the Weill Cornell Neuropsychology Service in the Department of Neurology New York Hospital Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medicine. After graduating from the Chicago Medical School doctoral program with a specialization in Neuropsychology, she completed an internship at the West Haven VA medical Center and Yale Epilepsy Program where she received the Jacob Levin Intern Award for Outstanding Clinical Scholarship. Subsequently, she underwent advanced training in a neuropsychology post doctoral fellowship at New York University School of Medicine-Hospital for Joint Diseases, as well as a neuropsychology fellowship at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Presently, her primary clinical and research activities focus on cognitive changes associated with neurologic disorders and, in particular, age-related diseases. In addition, she is a co-investigator on a number of research initiatives relating to cognitive decline associated with neurologic disease (Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus), chronic pain and depression.
Heather Katzen, Ph.D. is currently an adjunct assistant research professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology/neuropsychology from the University of Miami, completed her internship in clinical neuropsychology at Long Island Jewish/Hillside Hospital and her post doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at New York Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College. Her research focuses on age-related cognitive changes associated with neurological disease and most recently in cognitive recovery following treatment in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia
Editors: Lisa D. Ravdin, Heather L. Katzen
Series Title: Clinical Handbooks in Neuropsychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93497-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93496-9Published: 25 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93497-6Published: 14 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2625-266X
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2678
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 763
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neuropsychology, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Social Work, Neurology