It is important to understand the relationship between cognition and behavior when providing care to the elderly. Behavioral Neurology in the Elderly provides a comprehensive overview of the most important topic concerning medical and behavioral gerontology. The material provides insight into how the aging brain affects memory and language, as well as motor, emotional, and executive functioning. It also serves as an ultimate guide to medical and neuropsychological geriatric assessment and evaluation.
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This book is clear and well-written. It provides an excellent introduction to the epidemiology, nature, description, and assessment of cognitive disorders in the elderly including disorders of memory, language, sleep, motor function, and emotional function.
- Daniel B. Hier, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
- Daniel B. Hier, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
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Scientific psychology first emerged as a study of the relationship between the mind and the biological structures of an organism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
structural design dimensions, frontal aging hypothesis, intransitive gestures, pretest observations, organic memory disorders, psychopathological disturbances, pseudobulbar paralysis, evaluative results, limb praxis, elderly people experience, psychophysiological insomnia, sleep alterations, cerebrovascular pathology, cognitive aging, prospective memory, pathological aging, lacunar state, analyzed articles, cognitive deterioration, sleep fragmentation, emotional incontinence, limb apraxia, manic syndromes, gait impairment, depressive pseudodementia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Behavioral Neurology, United States, Academic Press, Oxford University Press, San Diego, American Psychiatric Association, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Plenum Press, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Aging Cogn, Cambridge University Press, Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Tower of Hanoi, Trail Making Test, Sleep Res, The Psychological Corporation, World Health Organization, American Psychological Association, Brain Cogn, East Sussex, Gonzalez Rothi, Psychology Press, Raven Press, Wechsler Memory Scale New!
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Scientific psychology first emerged as a study of the relationship between the mind and the biological structures of an organism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
structural design dimensions, frontal aging hypothesis, intransitive gestures, pretest observations, organic memory disorders, psychopathological disturbances, pseudobulbar paralysis, evaluative results, limb praxis, elderly people experience, psychophysiological insomnia, sleep alterations, cerebrovascular pathology, cognitive aging, prospective memory, pathological aging, lacunar state, analyzed articles, cognitive deterioration, sleep fragmentation, emotional incontinence, limb apraxia, manic syndromes, gait impairment, depressive pseudodementia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Behavioral Neurology, United States, Academic Press, Oxford University Press, San Diego, American Psychiatric Association, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Plenum Press, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Aging Cogn, Cambridge University Press, Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Tower of Hanoi, Trail Making Test, Sleep Res, The Psychological Corporation, World Health Organization, American Psychological Association, Brain Cogn, East Sussex, Gonzalez Rothi, Psychology Press, Raven Press, Wechsler Memory Scale New!
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- Psychology of Ageing by James E. Birren on 9 pages
- Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Fifth Edition (Handbooks of Aging) by James E. Birren on 7 pages
- The Handbook of Aging and Cognition by Fergus Craik on 4 pages
- Profiles in Cognitive Aging by Douglas Powell on 4 pages
- Dementia: A Clinical Approach, 3e by Mario Mendez MD on 4 pages
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