Handbook of Medical Neuropsychology Applications of Cognitive Neuros
This ambitious and important second edition of the Handbook of Medical Neuropsychology takes an in-depth approach to the medical conditions and methods of neurorehabilitation. Comprehensive in scope and highly detailed in its coverage, the secon
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Handbook of Medical Neuropsychology Applications of Cognitive Neuroscience Second Edition
Handbook of Medical Neuropsychology
Carol L. Armstrong • Lisa A. Morrow Editor
Associate Editor
Handbook of Medical Neuropsychology Applications of Cognitive Neuroscience Second Edition
Foreword by Muriel D. Lezak
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Editor Carol L. Armstrong Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA Associate Editor Lisa A. Morrow Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Pittsburgh, PA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-14894-2 ISBN 978-3-030-14895-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14895-9
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Foreword to the First Edition
This handbook celebrates the abundantly productive interaction of neuropsychology and medicine. This interaction can be found in both clinical settings and research laboratories, often between research teams and clinical practitioners. It accounts for the rapidity with which awareness and understanding of the neuropsychological components of many common medical disorders have recently advanced. The introduction of neuropsychology into practice and research involving conditions without obvious neurological components follows older and eminently successful models of integrated care and treatment of the classical brain disorders. In the last 50 years, with the growing understanding of neurological disorders, neuropsychologists and medical specialists in clinics, at bedside, and in laboratories together have contributed to important clinical and scientific advances in the understanding of the common pat
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