Handbook of Head Trauma
Acute Care to Recovery
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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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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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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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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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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...