Forensic Neuropsychology

A Scientific Approach

Buch | Hardcover

552 Seiten

2011 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538352-2 (ISBN)

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Neuropsychologists are frequently asked to serve as experts for court cases where judgments must be made as to the cause of, and prognosis for, brain diseases and injuries, as well as the impact of brain dysfunction on legal competencies and responsibilities. This fully-updated second edition describes the application of neuropsychology to legal issues in both the civil and criminal courts. The book emphasizes the scientific basis of neuropsychology, as well as using a scientific approach in addressing forensic questions. All of the contributors are recognized experts in their fields, and the chapters cover common forensic issues such as appropriate scientific reasoning, the assessment of malingering, productive attorney-neuropsychologist interactions, admissibility of neuropsychological evidence, and ethics. Also covered are functional neuroimaging in forensic neuropsychology and the determination of damages in personal injury litigation, including pediatric brain injury (traumatic injury and perinatal birth injury), mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury in adults, neurotoxic injury, chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, and assessment of medically unexplained symptoms. Civil competencies in elderly persons with dementia are addressed in a separate chapter, and two chapters deal with the assessment of competency and responsibility in criminal forensic neuropsychology. The book closes with a perspective on trends in forensic practice and research. Like the previous edition, this new volume is an invaluable resource for neuropsychologists, attorneys, neurologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and their students and trainees.

Glenn J. Larrabee, Ph.D. is currently engaged in the full-time independent practice of clinical neuropsychology, with an emphasis in forensic neuropsychology, in Sarasota, Florida. He is board-certified in Clinical Neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), a member of the medical staff at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and a licensed psychologist in Florida and Texas. He is a fellow of both the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and of Division 40 of the American Psychological Association, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Neuropsychology Review, and Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition. Dr. Larrabee has authored or co-authored numerous papers covering topics such as memory assessment, age-related cognitive change, Alzheimer's disease, mild traumatic brain injury, forensic neuropsychology, and malingering.

Chapter 1: A Scientific Approach to Forensic Neuropsychology ; Glenn J. Larrabee ; Chapter 2: Neuropsychology and the Law: Principles of Productive Attorney- ; Neuropsychologist Relations ; Manfred F. Greiffenstein ; Chapter 3: Admissibility of Expert Opinions based on Neuropsychological Evidence ; Paul M. Kaufmann ; Chapter 4: Ethical Practice of Forensic Neuropsychology ; Christopher L. Grote and Benjamin A. Pyykkonen ; Chapter 5: Assessment of Malingering ; Glenn J. Larrabee ; Chapter 6: Functional Neuroimaging in Forensic Neuropsychology ; Joseph Ricker ; Chapter 7: Perinatal Brain Injury ; H. Gerry Taylor ; Chapter 8: Forensic Aspects of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury ; Jacobus Donders ; Chapter 9: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury ; Glenn J. Larrabee ; Chapter 10: Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury ; Tresa Roebuck-Spencer and Mark Sherer ; Chapter 11: Neurotoxic Injury ; Karen I. Bolla ; Chapter 12: The Psychological Assessment of Persons With Chronic Pain ; Kevin W. Greve, Kevin J. Bianchini, and Jonathan S. Ord ; Chapter 13: Forensic Assessment of Medically Unexplained Symptoms ; Laurence M. Binder ; Chapter 14: Something to Talk About? ; The Status of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Clinical Neuropsychology ; Jim Andrikopoulos and Manfred F. Greiffenstein ; Chapter 15: Assessing Civil Competencies in Older Adults with Dementia: Consent Capacity, Financial Capacity, and Testamentary Capacity ; Daniel C. Marson, Katina Hebert, and Andrea C. Solomon ; Chapter 16: Criminal Forensic Neuropsychology and Assessment of competency ; Robert L. Denney ; Chapter 17: Criminal Responsibility and Other Criminal Forensic Issues ; Robert L. Denney ; Chapter 18: Trends in Forensic Practice and Research ; Jerry J. Sweet and Dawn Giuffre Meyer

Zusatzinfo	17 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 183 mm
Gewicht	1111 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-19-538352-4 / 0195383524
ISBN-13	978-0-19-538352-2 / 9780195383522
Zustand	Neuware