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Handbook of forensic neuropsychology /

This volume explains neuropsychological services to the population of brain injured adults and children who enter the legal system. It provides a comprehensive, well-integrated treatment of this new area of interest in neuropathology-psychopathology relationships, and examines the research knowledge...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Horton, Arthur MacNeill, 1947-, Hartlage, Lawrence C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., ©2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS
  • Overview of forensic neuropsychology / Arthur MacNeill Horton, Jr.
  • Neuropsychological basis of intelligence revised: some false starts and a clinical model / Cecil R. Reynolds, Christine L. French
  • Normative data and scaling issues in neuropsychology / Charles J. Golden
  • Diagnostic decision making in neuropsychology / Arthur D. Williams
  • Detecting malingering in civil forensic evaluations / Grant L. Iverson
  • SECTION II: ISSUES UNIQUE TO BRAIN INJURY
  • Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury / Lawrence C. Hartlage, Peter Patch
  • Neuroimaging in forensic neuropsychology / Erin D. Bigler
  • Behavioral change following traumatic brain injury / Peter C. Patch, Lawrence C. Hartlage
  • Utilizing neuropsychological assessment in disability determination and rehabilitation planning / Thomas L. Bennett, Michael J. Raymond
  • SECTION III: PRACTICE ISSUES
  • Depositions / John E. Meyers, Harold Widdison
  • Diagnostic issues: attorney perspective / John Montgomery Carson, C. Michael Bee
  • Neuropsychology in the courtroom / Lawrence C. Hartlage
  • SECTION IV: ETHICAL ISSUES
  • To release, or not to release raw test data, that is the question / Dorrie L. Rapp, Paul S. Ferber
  • Trained third-party presence during forensic neuropsychological evaluations / John J. Blase
  • Conflicts of interest and other pitfalls for the expert witness / Barry Crown, H. Scott Fingerhut, Sheryl J. Lowenthal
  • SECTION V: SPECIAL AREAS
  • Forensic neuropsychology with children / Jeffrey B. Titus, Raymond S. Dean
  • Forensic neurotoxicology / Raymond Singer
  • Forensic neuropsychological assessment in criminal law cases / Robert J. Sbordone [and others]
  • Neuropsychological evaluations in the context of competency decisions / Michael D. Franzen
  • Future of forensic neuropsychology / Arthur MacNeill Horton, Jr.