Clinical neuropsychology -- The education and training of the neuropsychologist -- Comparison of roles and training of different mental health specialists -- Neuroanatomy -- Neurobehavioral disorders -- Posttraumatic stress disorder -- Mild traumatic brain injury -- Severe traumatic brain injuries and seizures -- Reliability and validity -- Neuropsychological assessment -- Detection of deception and malingering -- Neuropsychological testing -- The interpretation of neuropsychological test data : assessment issues -- The limitations of neuropsychological tests -- Samples of medicolegal neuropsychological reports
Summary
Featuring a chapter on the detection of malingering and the deception of neuropsychological impairment, this book contains research on the validity and reliability studies. It covers neurodiagnositc procedures including MRI, angiography/spectroscopy, PET neurotransmitter, and histologic imaging
