Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians

There have been enormous advances over the last decade in our understanding of cognitive function, particularly aspects of memory, language and attention, but these have not been made accessible to clinicians. This book aims to incorporate these advances in theory into clinical practice and to provide a practical approach to cognitive valuation at the bedside, based on methods developed at the Cambridge clinic over the past 15 years. Designed primarily for neurologists, psychiatrists and geriatricians in training who require a practical guide to assessing higher mental function, the book will also be of interest to clinical psychologists. In this long-awaited second edition, John Hodges has substantially re-organised and expanded on the original text. The book includes a new chapter devoted to the Revised Version of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE-R), with a description of its uses and limitations along with normative data. Given the importance of the early detection of dementia a chapter is dedicated to this topic which draws on advances over the past decade. Several new illustrative case histories have also been added and all of the case descriptions have been orientated around the use of the ACE-R in clinical practice.

ISBN 019262976X   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780192629760 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 443 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192623942 Publication date 16 Aug 2007   Height (mm) 231 Library of Congress 2007009394   Width (mm) 153 DEWEY 616.80475   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		Distributed cognitive functions		1
2		Delirium and dementia		29
3		Localized cognitive functions		55
4		Cognitive and neuropsychiatric history taking and tips on physical examination		95
5		Testing cognitive function at the bedside		113
6		Standardized mental test schedules : their uses and abuses		143
7		The Addenbrooke's cognitive examination - revised and supplementary test suggestions		157
8		Illustrative cases		185
App		Neuropsychological tests		215

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