The Neuropsychology Casebook - Boone, Kyle B.

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Sommaire:
1 Head Injury.- Types of Head Injury.- Coup and Contrecoup Effects in Closed Head Injury.- Shearing/Tearing Effects.- Medical Complications Producing Focal Damage in Closed Head Injury: Hematomas.- Prognostic Factors: Coma and Post-Traumatic Amnesia.- Conclusions.- Case 1: Closed Head Injury Implicating Frontal Dysfunction.- Case 2: Open Head Injury Associated with Frontal Lobe Dysfunction.- Case 3: Open Head Injury Associated with Frontal Lobe Dysfunction.- Case 4: Closed Head Injury Associated with Multiple Cognitive Deficits.- Commentary on Head Injury Cases.- 2 Cerebrovascular Disease.- Case 1: Bilateral Occipitotemporal Hemorrhage.- Case 2: Wernicke's Aphasia.- Case 3: Multiple CVAs.- Case 4: Right Hemisphere CVA.- Commentary on Cerebrovascular Disease Cases.- 3 Dementia.- Neurospsychology and Normal Aging.- Pathologic Aging: Dementia.- Acute Confusional State.- Cortical Dementias.- Alzheimer's Disease.- Pick's Disease.- Subcortical Dementias.- Mixed Dementias and Multi-Infarct Dementia.- The Dementia Syndrome of Depression.- Summary.- Case 1: Basal Ganglia Calcification Producing Subcortical Dementia.- Case 2: Progressive Dementing Disorder.- Case 3: Multi-Infarct Dementia.- Commentary on Dementia Cases.- 4 Epilepsy.- Intellectual Scores.- Neuropsychological Findings.- Effects of Anticonvulsant Medication.- Pseudoseizures.- Prediction of Future Functioning.- Personality Functioning.- Summary.- Case 1: Seizures Associated with Tuberous Sclerosis.- Case 2: Severe Seizure Disorder with Marked Cognitive Deterioration.- Case 3: Seizure Disorder Associated with Psychosis.- Commentary on Epilepsy Cases.- 5 Brain Tumors, Cysts, and Abscesses.- Case 1: Third Ventricle Tumor.- Case 2: Right Parietal Osteoma.- Case 3: Bilateral Frontal Cysts.- Commentary on Brain TumorCases.- 6 Long-Term Alcohol Abuse.- Neuropsychological Sequelae of the Early and Middle Phases of Alcohol Abuse.- Korsakoff's Disease.- Alcohol Dementia.- Summary.- Case 1: Chronic Alcohol Abuse.- Case 2: Documented Intellectual Decline Following Chronic Alcohol Abuse: A Probable Alcohol Dementia.- Case 3: Korsakoff's Syndrome.- Commentary on Alcohol-Abuse Cases.- 7 Adult Presentation of Learning Disorders.- Differential Diagnosis.- Adult Presentation.- General Cognitive Pattern of Learning Disorders in Adults.- Specific Neuropsychological Functioning.- Summary.- Case 1: Residual Signs of a Developmental Learning Disorder.- Case 2: Residual Signs of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.- Case 3: Residual Learning Disorder with Compensation.- Commentary on Learning Disorder Cases.- 8 Conscious or Nonconscious Feigning of Deficits.- Neuropsychological Literature on Feigning of Cognitive Deficits.- Test Procedures Designed to Detect Malingering.- A Note of Caution.- Summary.- Case 1: Malingering.- Case 2: Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition.- Case 3: Probable Somatization Disorder.- Commentary on Feigning of Deficits Cases.- Author Index.