Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning

About the Title

While neuropsychological testing can accurately detect cognitive deficits in persons with brain injury, the ability to reliably predict how these individuals will function in everyday life has remained elusive. This authoritative volume brings together well-known experts to present recent advances in the neuropsychological assessment of key real-world capacities: the ability to live independently, work, manage medications, and drive a car. For each of these domains, contributors describe cutting-edge tests, procedures, and interpretive strategies and examine salient theoretical and methodological issues. Chapters also review approaches for evaluating specific populations, including older adults and patients with traumatic brain injury, depression, dementia, schizophrenia, and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Assessment Concepts and Methods. A. Approaches to Assessing the Relationship between Cognition and Everyday Functioning. T. D. Marcotte, J. C. Scott, R. Kamat, R. K. Heaton, Neuropsychology and the Prediction of Everyday Functioning. W. A. Rogers, A. K. Mayer, C. B. Fausset, Understanding the Relevance of Human Factors/Ergonomics to Neuropsychology Practice and the Assessment of Everyday Functioning. C. M. Baum, N. Katz, Occupational Therapy Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Cognition and Function. B. Assessment of Specific Functional Abilities and Assessment Considerations. D. Loewenstein, A. Acevedo, The Relationship between Instrumental Activities of Daily Living and Neuropsychological Performance. J. R. Sadek, W. G. van Gorp, The Prediction of Vocational Functioning from Neuropsychological Performance. T. R. Barclay, M. J. Wright, C. H. Hinkin, Medication Management. M. Rizzo, I. L. Kellison, The Brain on the Road. M. Cherner, Considerations in the Cross-cultural Assessment of Functional Abilities. Part 2. Everyday Impact of Normal Aging and Neuropsychiatric Disorders. R. M. Kaplan, B. T. Mausbach, T. D. Marcotte, T. L. Patterson, The Impact of Cognitive Impairments on Health-related Quality of Life. K. Ball, L. A. Ross, S. Viamonte, Normal Aging and Everyday Functioning. P. Malloy, N. C. R. McLaughlin, Everyday Functioning in Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment. R. H. Paul, S. Maloney, P. Boyle, Everyday Functioning in Vascular Dementia. R. A. Lillie, K. Kowalski, B. N. Patry, C. Sira, H. Tuokko, C. A. Mateer, Everyday Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury. M. R. Lovell, J. E. Pardini, Neuropsychological Assessment and Sports-related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (Concussion). P. A. Arnett, M. M. Smith, Cognitive Functioning and Everyday Tasks in Multiple Sclerosis. J. C. Scott, T. D. Marcotte, Everyday Impact of HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders. D. J. Moore, S. Moseley, J. H. Atkinson, The Influence of Depression on Cognition and Daily Functioning. M. F. Green, Cognition and Daily Functioning in Schizophrenia. T. D. Marcotte, I. Grant, Future Directions in the Assessment of Everyday Functioning.

Reviews

"Finally, a book that puts the brain into the context of the real world! The editors and contributors should be commended for this remarkable, broad-reaching volume that explores the neuropsychological underpinnings of some of our most fundamental tasks of everyday living. Not since Halstead’s seminal Brain and Intelligence has the ecological validity of neuropsychological procedures been systematically raised to such a truly scientific plane of inquiry. Thought provoking and generative, this book is ‘must’ reading for practitioners, researchers, advanced graduate students, and instructors." - Gordon J. Chelune, Senior Neuropsychologist, Center for Alzheimer’s Care, Imaging and Research, Department of Neurology, University of Utah

"Often, clinicians and investigators find it difficult to understand the implications of neuropsychological test performance for real-world functioning. This comprehensive book presents state-of-the-art approaches for the evaluation of function in applied situations. It then explores the relationship between cognition and function in specific medical conditions and contexts. This book will be of great value to both the student and the experienced clinical practitioner. It will also serve as an important guide to investigators who wish to explore the functional implications of cognitive changes." - Yaakov Stern, Division Leader, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Columbia University, USA

"This book heralds a new age in clinical neuropsychology. Marcotte and Grant have done a masterful job of identifying leaders in the field of everyday functioning to capture the breadth and depth of this critical and challenging area. Chapters provide an excellent framework for assessing everyday functioning and its relationship to cognitive deficits across a wide spectrum of etiologies and types of functions. The volume is 'must' reading for clinicians and researchers, and the functional impact of neuropsychological deficits should be a cornerstone of neuropsychological training programs. Instructors in the field will find this book an indispensable text." - Kathleen Y. Haaland, New Mexico VA Healthcare System and Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of New Mexico

Author Biography

Edited by Thomas D. Marcotte, PhD, and Igor Grant, MD: both at Department of Psychiatry and HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA