Cognitive assessment for clinicians

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Cognitive assessment for clinicians

John R. Hodges

Oxford University Press, 1994

  • pbk.
  • hard.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

pbk. ISBN 9780192623942

内容説明

This remarkable new book provides a unique, practical guide to cognitive testing for clinicians. Incorporating the enormous advances in the understanding of cognitive function over the past decade, the author - himself a practising behavioural neurologist - presents the theory behind cognitive assessment and advocates a practical approach to testing. Twelve case histories illustrate this pragmatic approach and tips on physical examination are presented making this an invaluable aid to bedside assessment. A useful appendix including standardized mental test schedules supplements the text. This unique guide will be invaluable to every clinician who wishes to enhance standards of cognitive assessment.

目次

  • 1. Distributed cognitive functions
  • 2. Localized cognitive functions
  • 3. Cognitive history-taking and tips on physical examination
  • 4. Testing cognitive function at the bedside
  • 5. Illustrative cases
  • 6. Standardized mental test schedules: their uses and abuses
  • Appendix: Neuropsychological tests
  • Selected reading
  • Index
巻冊次

hard. ISBN 9780192623959

内容説明

Provides a practical approach to the assessment of patients with disorders of cognative function - such as memory and language impairment. Beginning with theoretical background of cognitive testing and an overview of cognitive functions, divided into those with a distributed or localized neural basis. There is a description of common neuropsychological syndromes including delirium, dementia, amnesia, aphasia, agnosia, and neglect. There have been enormous advances in this field in the last decade and the author incorporates these advances in theory and provides a practical approach to bedside cognitive testing with some tips on physical examination. There are 12 case histories to illustrate the advocated approach. Standardized mental test schedules, such as the Mini Mental State Examination, are discussed and there is an appendix which describes commonly used neuropsychological tests.

目次

  • Distributed cognitive functions - a general theoretical framework, attention/concentration, memory, higher-order cognitive function, personality, and behaviour, delirium, dementia
  • localized cognitive functions - language, disorders of reading - the dyslexia, disorders of writing - the dysgraphias, syndromes of calculating impairment, disorders of praxis - the apraxias, damage to specialized right hemisphere functions, unilateral neglect, dressing apraxia, constructional ability, complex visuo-perceptual abilities - the agnosias
  • cognitive history-taking and tips and physical examination - the patient interview, the informant interview, family history, past medical history, alcohol intake, tips on physical examination
  • testing cognitive function at the bedside - general observations, orientation and attention, memory, frontal executive functions
  • dominant (left) hemisphere function - language, reading, writing, calculation, apraxia
  • right-hemisphere functions - neglect phenomena, dressing apraxia, constructional ability, complex visuo-perceptual abilities and the agnosias, checklist for testing cognitive function
  • illustrative cases
  • standardized mental test schedules - their uses and abuses - introduction, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), information-memory-concentration test - American modification by Fuld, Hodkinson mental test, dementia rating scale (DRS), Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG). Appendix: neuropsychological tests.

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