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Charles J. Long
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Development of Neuropsychology as a Professional Psychological Specialty: History, Training, and Credentialing
Neuropsychology can be depicted as having a long history and a short past. As early as 400 BC, Hippocrates conjectured a correlation of behavioral observations with possible anatomic localizations, and later G...
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Development of Neuropsychology as a Professional Psychological Specialty
Although neuropsychology as a scientific field of inquiry has origins dating at least as far back as the late 19th century, it is only during the past quarter century that neuropsychology has enjoyed widesprea...
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Cognitive Sequelae in Closed Head Injury
For the past 18 years our laboratory has been conducting neuropsychological assessments on head-injured patients referred by neurosurgeons, neurologists, attorneys, insurance companies, and government agencies...
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Training and Credentialing in Child Neuropsychology
Although neuropsychology as a scientific field of inquiry has origins dating at least as far back as the late 19th century, it is only during the past 20 years that neuropsychology has enjoyed widespread recog...
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Neuropsychological Assessment and Treatment of Head Trauma Patients
Head trauma has undoubtedly been a significant problem since the beginning of man, but it’s incidence, in our fast-based technological society, has reached staggering proportions. Caveness (1977) estimated tha...
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Four Computational Models for Investigating Neuropsychological Decision-making
Neuropsychological decision-making in the clinical setting can be investigated from the perspective of different computational models derived from cognitive science. In this chapter, we focus on four of these ...
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The Current Status of Computer-Assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation
Millions of children and young adults suffer from brain impairment due to inborn or acquired disorders. For example, in the U.S. alone there are approximately 10 million head injuries each year. Whether due to...
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Methodological Issues in Research in Developmental Neuropsychology
The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of issues and problems associated with neuropsychological studies of brain-injured children. We are primarily concerned with factors that influence the rel...
