Author: John R. Hodges
This handbook of
cognitive assessment for clinicians is aimed primarily at neurologists and psychiatrists in training who require a practical
guide to assessing the higher mental functions in the clinic or at the bedside, and will also be of interest to clinical psychologists. It begins bypresenting the theoretical basis of cognitive testing with an overview of
cognitive functions, divided into those with a distributed or a localized neural basis. There is a description of all the common neuropsychological syndromes including delirium, dementia, amnesia, aphasia, agnosia, andneglect. There have been enormous advances over the last decade in our understanding of the cognitive functions…
