Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Authorsâ€? Appointments
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Section I Overview
  • 1 Selection and Use of Outcome Measures
  • What are outcome measures and their determinants?
  • Why are outcome measures important to use?
  • Factors to consider in the selection of outcome measures
  • 2 The Purpose and Framework for this Text
  • The purpose of this text
  • The framework for this text
  • Organizational structure of this text
  • Format for each chapter
  • Section II Body structures and functions
  • 3 Novel Neuroimaging Tools
  • What is the construct?
  • Factors to consider when measuring this domainOverview of recommended measures
  • Factors that influence the reproducibility of MRI-driven measures
  • Summary
  • 4 Genetic Testing
  • Introduction
  • What is the construct?
  • General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • Summary
  • 5 Global Mental Functions: Wakefulness and Sleep (b110, b134)
  • What is the construct?
  • General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • Summary
  • 6 Global Mental Functions: Intellectual (b117)What is the construct?
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Summary
  • 7 Global Mental Functions: Psychosocial (b122)
  • What is the construct?
  • General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Global Mental Functions: Temperament and Personality (b126)
  • What is the construct?
  • General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • 9 Specific Mental Functions: Attention and Executive Functions (b140, b144, b164)What is the construct?
  • Overview of behavioural measures used to assess attention and executive functions
  • Atypical development of attention and executive function
  • Conclusions
  • 10 Specific Mental Functions: Emotional Functions, Experience of Self and Time (b152, b180)
  • What is the construct?
  • General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • Final thoughts and recommendations
  • 11 Specific Mental Functions: Perceptual (b156)
  • What is the construct?General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • 12 Specific Mental Functions: Language (b167)
  • What is the construct?
  • A model of the mental functions underlying language
  • General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • Additional Measures
  • 13 Sensory Functions: General (b210â€?b270)
  • What is the construct?
  • General factors to consider when measuring this domain
  • Overview of recommended measures
  • Conclusion