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While neuropsychological testing can accurately detect cognitive deficits in persons with brain injury, the ability to reliably predict how these individuals will function in everyday life has remained elusive. This authoritative volume brings together well-known experts to present recent advances in the neuropsychological assessment of key real-world capacities: the ability to live independently, work, manage medications, and drive a car. For each of these domains, contributors describe cutting-edge tests, procedures, and interpretive strategies and examine salient theoretical and methodological issues. Chapters also review approaches for evaluating specific populations, including older adults and patients with traumatic brain injury, depression, dementia, schizophrenia, and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning The Science and Practice of Neuropsychology A Guilford Series Robert A. Bornstein, Series Editor Aphasia and Language: Theory to Practice Stephen E. Nadeau, Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, and Bruce A. Crosson, Editors Cognitive and Behavioral Rehabilitation: From Neurobiology to Clinical Practice Jennie Ponsford, Editor Developmental Motor Disorders: A Neuropsychological Perspective Deborah Dewey and David E. Tupper, Editors The Human Frontal Lobes: Functions and Disorders, Second Edition Bruce L. Miller and Jeffrey L. Cummings, Editors Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning Thomas D. Marcotte and Igor Grant, Editors Pediatric Neuropsychology: Research, Theory, and Practice, Second Edition Keith Owen Yeates, M. Douglas Ris, H. Gerry Taylor, and Bruce F. Pennington, Editors Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning Edited by Thomas D. Marcotte Igor Grant Series Editor’s Note by Robert A. Bornstein THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London © 2010 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Last digit is print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Neuropsychology of everyday functioning / edited by Thomas D. Marcotte, Igor Grant. p. cm.–(The science and practice of neuropsychology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60623-459-4 (hbk.) 1. Neuropsychology. 2. Cognitive psychology. 3. Cognitive neuroscience. I. Marcotte, Thomas D. II. Grant, Igor, 1942– QP360.N4948 2010 612.8′2—dc22 2009016121 To Wendy, Kyle, and Kathryn, who prove that despite its day-to-day challenges, the real world is a wondrous place to be And to my parents, Bob and Carol, who always encouraged and supported me —T. D. M. To JoAnn Nallinger Grant, my partner in life —I. G. About the Editors Thomas D. Marcotte, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Center Manager of the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center at UCSD. His research focuses on the development of methods for assessing and predicting the impact of cognitive impairments on the ability to carry out everyday activities, in particular, driving an automobile. Dr. Marcotte also has a program of research investigating HIV-related neurocognitive dysfunction, particularly in the international context. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on these topics and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the International Neuropsycholo