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The goal of this book is to introduce cognitive neuropsychology to a broad audience of clinicians and researchers. To orient readers who are interested in disorders of higher cortical function, but have little background in psychology, sufficient introductory material is provided, and yet each topic is explored in enough depth to serve as a reference for cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuropsychologists. The editor, David Margolin, M.D., Ph.D., has assembled a prominent group of researchers and clinicians, and each describes how the vocabulary, theoretical framework, and information-processing models of cognitive psychology are applied to various disorders of higher cortical function. Each chapter provides an overview of the disorder being discussed, develops a rationale for selecting the stimulus materials, and demonstrates how a given patient's deficits can be understood in terms of a breakdown in one or more cognitive domains. The contributors gear the chapters toward the practicing clinicians and use a step-by-step description of how one goes about determining the locus of the deficit in a patient. This cognitive neuropsychological approach is applied to disorders of attention, memory, language, vision, calculation, and motor control. A final chapter introduces the important role of neuroimaging techniques in diagnosis, which will continue to aid our understanding of brain-behavior relationships. Professionals in the fields of neuropsychology, neurology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, as well as practicing speech therapists and pathologists, will find this volume a comprehensive introduction to this increasingly important discipline.
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COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE This page intentionally left blank COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE Edited by David Ira Margolin Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco Fresno-Central San Joaquin Valley Medical Education Program and the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Fresno Veterans Administration Medical Center Fresno, California New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1992 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1992 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cognitive neuropsychology in clinical practice / edited by David Ira Margolin, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-506422-4 1, Cognition disorders. 2. Clinical neuropsychology. I. Margolin, David Ira. [DNLM: 1. Attention. 2. Cognition. 3. Cognition Disorders— psychology. 4. Language Disorders—psychology. 5. Neuropsychology. WL 103 C6765] RC553.C64C65 1992 616.8—dc20 DNLM/DLC 91-24105 CIP 987654321 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper With love, to Slim and Ruth This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction 3 Part I FOUNDATIONS 1. Clinical Cognitive Neuropsychology: An Emerging Specialty David Ira Margolin 9 2. Probing the Multiple Facets of Human Intelligence: The Cognitive Neuropsychologist as Clinician 18 David Ira Margolin Part II THE PERVASIVE INFLUENCE OF ATTENTION 3. Processing Resource Limitations in Schizophr