Casebook of Clinical Neuropsychology features actual clinical neuropsychological cases drawn from leading experts’ files. Each chapter represents a different case completed by a different expert. Cases cover the lifespan from child, to adult, to geriatric, and the types of cases will represent a broad spectrum of prototypical cases of well-known and well-documented disorders as well as some rarer disorders. Chapter authors were specifically chosen for their expertise with particular disorders. When a practitioner is going to see a child or an adult with “X” problem, they can turn to the “case” and find up to date critical information to help them understand the issues related to the diagnosis, a brief synopsis of the literature, the patient’s symptom presentation, the evaluation including neuropsychological test results and other results from consultants, along with treatments and recommendations.

Clinical cases represent a long-established tradition as a teaching vehicle in the clinical sciences, most prominently in medicine and psychology. Case studies provide the student with actual clinical material – data in the form of observations of the patient, examination/test data, relevant history, and related test results – all of which must be integrated into a diagnostic conclusion and ultimately provide the patient with appropriate recommendations. Critical to this educational/heuristic process is the opportunity for the reader to view the thought processes of the clinician that resulted in the conclusions and recommendations offered. With the science of the disorder as the foundation of this process, readers learn how the integration of multiple sources of data furthers critical thinking skills.

Review

“If you are looking for a casebook of common neuropsychological disorders, consider your search over. In fact, Morgan, Baron, and Ricker have provided an edition that delivers content well beyond its title. The authors have compiled a broad range of clinical cases, each of which provides an appropriate level of detail for readers who have pre-existing knowledge of neuropsychology principles. Thus this text is sure to find its way to the shelves of advanced graduate students, postdoctoral residents, early career practitioners, and seasoned professionals who serve adult and pediatric populations.” — Psychology Press

“Overall, Casebook of Clinical Neuropsychology is an excellent resource. It accomplishes its stated goal of providing reference for case preparation and does so for a great variety of conditions and in concise manner.” — Alexander B. Chervinsky, Ph.D., ABPP-CN, Neuropsychological Assessment Platform

“As a supervisor, I suspect that one of the major ways I will use this book is for teaching. It is perfect for use with graduate students just starting their clinical work in neuropsychology… This book is interesting and informative in the sense that it gives you a glimpse into the clinical assessment procedures of a number of prominent neuropsychologists, so you get to see what types of tests they use, how they write up a case, and how they interpret data…I found myself thinking about several of the cases long after I had finished reading it. It is a valuable reference to add to one’s arsenal of resources in the field of neuropsychology.” — Suzanne Dickson, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

“In the Casebook of Clinical Neuropsychology, the editors have assembled a cast of neuropsychologists with expertise in a wide range of subspecialties to review and discuss informative cases from their clinical practices. The real-life cases presented in this text make a valuable contribution to one’s personal reference library.” — Timothy A. Crowell, Journal of Clinical and Experiemental Neuropsychology

About the Author

JM:Joel E. Morgan, Department of Neurology & Neurosciences, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ , ISB: Ida Sue Baron, Ph.D., ABPP-CN , Director of Neuropsychology
Department of Pediatrics , Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children , Falls Church, VA & Professor of Pediatrics University of Virginia School of Medicine , Charlottesville, VA , JHR:Joseph H. Ricker, PhD, ABPP (CN, RP) Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Neuropsychology & Rehabilitation Psychology Dept of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Contents

۱. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
۲. Asperger Disorder
۳. The Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Early Childhood: A Case Report
۴. Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Case of Siblings
۵. Dyslexia in a Young Adult
۶. Tourette Syndrome
۷. Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele
a. A Case of Cerebral Palsy [Spastic Diplegia]
۹. Sickle Cell Disease
۱۰. A Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1
۱۱. Focal Cortical Dysplasia and Epilepsy Surgery
۱۲. Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
۱۳. A Case of Liver Transplantation in Maple Syrup Urine Disease
۱۴. Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: All Cases Are Not Complicated Equally
۱۵. Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects of Questionable Effort
۱۶. From Preschool to College: Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury Sustained during Early Childhood
۱۷. Well-Documented, Serious Brain Dysfunction Followed by Malingering
۱۸. Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
۱۹. Why Would He Do It? A Case of Probable Malingering in the Context of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
۲۰. Recovery following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
۲۱. Hypoxia after Near Drowning
۲۲. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Anxiety Disorder: An Atypical Presentation of a Typical Disorder
۲۳. A Case of Somatoform Disorder with Inconsistent Effort
۲۴. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Case Study
۲۵. First-Episode Schizophrenia
۲۶. Late-Onset Depression versus Dementia
۲۷. Release Hallucinations: Uninvited Guests and Phantom Orchestras
۲۸. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizure Disorder: The Case of P.S.
۲۹. Birth below 500 grams
۳۰. Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
۳۱. A Case of Childhood Lead Poisoning
۳۲. Neurobehavioraland Neurodevelopmental Sequelae Associated with Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection
۳۳. Language-Dominant Neocortical Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
۳۴. Language Dominant Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
۳۵. Motor and Cognitive Characteristics in a Case of Static Encephalopathy
۳۶. Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma: Postresection Amnesia in a College Student
۳۷. Cerebral Neoplasm: Glioblastoma Multiforme
۳۸. A Case of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
۳۹. Detecting Deficits in High-Functioning Patients
۴۰. Neuropsychological Effects of Surgical Resection of a Colloid Cyst: A Case Presentation
۴۱. Anoxic Brain Injury: Two Cases of Anoxic Brain Injury Secondary to Cardiac Arrest
۴۲. A Case of Hepatic Encephalopathy in End-Stage Liver Disease Secondary to Alcoholic Cirrhosis
۴۳. Cerebral Neoplasm: Medulloblastoma
۴۴. Pediatric Epilepsy
۴۵. Central Nervous System Germinoma: The Effects of Central Tumors on Neuropsychological Function
۴۶. Childhood Multiple Sclerosis
۴۷. Adult Multiple Sclerosis
۴۸. Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia
۴۹. Early-0nset Alzheimer Disease
۵۰. Looking into the Crystal Ball of Mild Cognitive Impairment:I See Alzheimer Disease
۵۱. Clinical and Neuropathologic Presentation of Dementia with Lewy Bodies
۵۲. A Case of Corticobasal Syndrome
۵۳. Serial Neuropsychological Assessment in a Case of Huntington Disease
۵۴. Two Neuropsychologists with Huntington Disease
۵۵. Cognitive and Behavioral Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
۵۶. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
۵۷. Pick Disease
۵۸. Neuropsychological Assessment in a Case of Left Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke
۵۹. Language Impairments following Basal Ganglia Stroke: Hold and Release Functions in Cognition
۶۰. Vascular Dementia
۶۱. Large Right-Hemisphere Hemorrhagic Stroke
۶۲. Ruptured Aneurysm of the Anterior Communicating Artery