CONTENTS
Contributors
Preface to the National Academy of Neuropsychological Series on
Evidence-Based Practices
Preface to the Second Volume in the National Academy of
Neuropsychological Series on Evidence-Based Practices
Secondary Influences on Neuropsychological Test Performance
1. Overview. - Peter Arnett, Penn State University
Part I: Relationship of affective disorders, anxiety disorders,
fatigue, motor impairments, diagnosis threat, and effort to
cognitive functioning
2. Malingering/effort
Kyle Boone and Elizabeth Ziegler
3. Depression and affective disorders: Impact on the level of
cognitive functioning
Michael Basso
4. Depression and affective disorders: Impact on the content of
cognitive functioning
Bruce Christiansen
5. Anxiety
Colin MacLeod and Pat Clarke
6. Fatigue
John DeLuca and Lauren Strober
7. Pain
Jake Epker and Melissa Ogden
8. Motor Impairments
Peter Arnett, Gray Vargas and Dede Ukueberuwa
9. Diagnosis Threat/Expectation as Etiology
Julie Suhr
Part II: Complexities in assessing depression, anxiety, and fatigue
in the context of specific neurological conditions
10. Multiple Sclerosis
Jared Bruce Holly Westervelt, and Joanie Thelen
11. HIV
David Moore, Kaitlin Blackstone, and Steven Paul Woods
12. Parkinson's Disease. Alexander Tröster, Lindsay P. Prizer, and
Amber Baxley
13. Traumatic Brain Injury
Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe, Elizabeth Ziegler, and Chad
Sanders
14. Alzheimer's Disease/MCI/Stroke
Lloyd Stephen Miller and Antonio Nicholas Puente
15. Epilepsy
Bruce Hermann and David Loring
Part III: Assessment & Treatment of secondary influences, plus
final summary chapter
16. Assessing Secondary Influences and Their Impact on
Neuropsychological Test Performance
Peter Arnett and Amanda Rabinowitz
17. Summing Things up: Where We Stand, Where We Need to Go From
Here
Peter Arnett
Index
Peter Arnett, PhD
Director of Clinical Training
Associate Professor of Psychology
The Pennsylvania State University
"The need to heighten awareness in the field of non-neurological
influences on neuropsychological test scores is critical and this
is an estimable attempt to broach the topic. Readers will find this
book enlightening and critical to implement in their practice.
There are some weaknesses that stop the book short of its pinnacle,
but these hopefully will be addressed in the next edition." --
Doody's
"This is a very good book on the influence of the secondary factors
on the results obtained in a neuropsychological assessment, as well
as secondary factors most important to watch for a variety of
neurological diseases and disorders. Several chapters using both
the case studies and of the useful for clinicians summary tables
(ex: recommendations of specific tools according to the evidence).
We should also remember that this would be the first book
devoted
exclusively to the influence of secondary factors." -Simon
Charbonneau, PhD, Quebec Association of Neuropsychologists
"This book should be required reading for every neuropsychologist.
A better understanding of all the factors that contribute to
cognitive test performance will not only help us to separate the
true signal from the noise, but might even hold the key to finding
better ways to improve functioning for our patients. With this book
we now have an excellent compilation of empirical data to better
understand the "noise," and in doing so, our patients." --Naomi
Chaytor,
The Clinical Neuropsychologist
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