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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Neuroanatomy of the Nervous System
• Central Nervous System
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Central Nervous System Functional Anatomy
• The Motor System
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 2: Neurologic Assessment
• The Interview and Physical Examination
• The Neurologic Examination
• Laboratory Tests
• Recording the Results of the Neurologic Examination
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 3: Assessing Adults Who Have Neurogenic Cognitive-Communicative Disorders
• The Process of Assessment and Diagnosis
• Sources of Information About the Patient
• Interviewing the Patient
• Testing the Patient
• Efficacy and Effectiveness
• Impairment, Disability, and Handicap
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 4: Assessing Cognition
• Attention
• Memory
• Executive Function
• Conclusions
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 5: Assessing Language
• Screening Tests of Language
• Comprehensive Language Tests
• Auditory Comprehension
• Reading
• Speech Production
• Written Expression
• Language Pragmatics
• Standardized Aphasia Tests
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 6: Assessing Functional Communication and Quality of Life
• Functional Communication
• Quality of Life
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 7: The Context for Treatment of Cognitive-Communicative Disorders
• The Treatment Team
• Candidacy for Treatment
• How Clinicians Decide What to Treat
• General Characteristics of Intervention
• Adjusting Treatment to the Patient
• Instructions and Feedback
• Recording and Charting Patients’ Performance
• Measuring the Effects of Treatment
• Enhancing Generalization
• Social Validation
• Conclusion
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 8: Neuropathologic and Neuroanatomic Explanations of Aphasia and Related Disorders
• Neuropathology
• Neuoranatomic Explanations of Aphasia and Related Disorders
• How the Brain Performs Language
• Patterns of Language Impairment
• Related Disorders
• Apraxia
• Agnosia
• Limitations of Connectionist Explanations of Aphasia and Related Disorders
• The Explanatory Power of Connectionist Models
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 9: Treatment of Aphasia and Related Disorders
• Process-Oriented Treatment
• Functional and Social Approaches to Intervention
• Group Treatment for Aphasic Adults
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 10: Right-Hemisphere Syndrome
• Historical Overview
• Behavioral and Cognitive Symptoms of Right-Hemisphere Brain Injury
• Communicative Impairments Associated with Right-Hemisphere Injury
• Tests for Assessing Adults with Right-Hemisphere Brain Injury
• Intervention
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 11: Traumatic Brain Injury
• Incidence and Prevalence of traumatic Brain Injuries
• Risk Factors
• Pathophysiology of traumatic Brain Injury
• Prognostic Indicators in traumatic Brain Injury
• Behavioral and cognitive Recovery
• Assessing Adults with traumatic Brain Injuries
• Intervention
• Group Treatment
• Community Integration
• Working with the Family
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 12: Dementia
• Subcortical Dementia
• Cortical Dementia
• Mixed Dementia
• Other Causes of Dementia
• Occasional Causes of Dementia
• Pseudodementia
• Delirium and Dementia
• Neurologic Conditions that May Produce Dementia-Like Signs
• Identifying Dementia
• Assessment of Persons with Dementia
• Helping People Cope with Dementia
• Management Issues
• Intervention
• Thought Questions
• Chapter 13: Motor Speech Disorders
• Apraxia of Speech
• Testing for Apraxia of Speech
• Intervention
• Dysarthria
• Evaluation
• Intervention
• Thought Questions
• Appendix A: Standard Medical Abbreviations
• Appendix B: Responses to Thought Questions
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index