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This comprehensive update of the expert reference offers up-to-date 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. Throughout, 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:

Author Biography

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.  

Table of Contents

Assessment of Older Adults: Special Considerations.- Special considerations for the neuropsychological interview.- Consideration of cognitive reserve.- Elder abuse: identification and intervention.- Neuropsychological evaluation of older ethnic minority populations.- Substance abuse in older adults.- Chronic pain.- Fitness for duty evaluations.- Performance validity testing.- Impact of anesthesia: posteroperative cognitive changes.- Assessment of change: serial assessments of dementia evaluations.- Sleep and aging.-  Assessment of depressoin and anxiety in older adults.- Neuropsychological assessment and management of older adults with multiple somatic symptoms.- Driving evaluation in older adults.- Environmental design for cognitive decline.- Clinical neuropsychology practice and the Medicare patient.- Preventoin of clgnitive decline.- Professional competence for ethical neuropsychological practice.- Management of behavioral symptoms in dementia.-  Cognitive remediation in older adults.- Feedback in age-related disorders.- After the diagnosis of dementia: considerations for disease management.- Late Life Cognitive Disorders.- Mild cognitive impairment and normal aging.- Differential diagnosis of depression and dementia.- Differential diagnosis of dementia.- Assessment of Alzheimer's disease.- Vascular cognitive impairement.- Disorders of alterations in cerebral blood flow.- Assessment in acute stroke rehabilitation.- Accurate assessment of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.- Dementia with language disorders/primary progressive aphasia.- Movement disorders with dementia.- Neuropsychological consideratoins for surgical interventroins for Parkinson's disease.- Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.- Episodic and semantic memory disorders.- Epilepsy and aging.- Neuropsychological assessment of older adults with cancer.- Evaluation of cognition in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.- Hepatic encephalopathy.- Late onset schizophrenia.- Capacity evaluatoins in older adults: neuropsychological perspectives.- Chronic traumatic endephalopathy.- Cardiology and cognition: consideratoins for left ventricular assist device.- Postoperative cognitive changes and the effects of anesthesia.

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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

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