Clinical Psychology

be useful for individuals who are about to experience similar procedures. coronary heart diseaseA disease that involves damage t ...

sympathetic activation can have adverse effects on body organs, mental functions, and the immune system. systematic desensitizat ...

18 Neuropsychology FOCUS QUESTIONS What features distinguish the field of neuro- psychology and neuropsychological assessment? ...

The Future BOX18-6:Clinical Psychologist Perspective: Paula Zuffante, Ph.D. CHAPTER SUMMARY KEY TERMS WEB SITES OF INTEREST A ve ...

of illness (based on, e.g., the degree of cognitive impairment present) as well as to help tailor treat- ment strategies to pati ...

tended to make localization of function a secondary goal of diagnosis, and brain damage was often viewed as a unitary phenomenon ...

(b) the development of the field of clinical psy- chology itself (Hartlage, 1987). An important development of the postwar perio ...

tests and adding several others. Subsequently, Reitan and his colleagues could relate test responses to such discrete aspects of ...

to monitor and control one’s emotional state—is also associated with frontal lobe functioning. Substantial frontal lobe developm ...

Degenerative Disease. This group of disorders is characterized by a degeneration of neurons in the central nervous system. Commo ...

Impaired memory: patient forgets events, espe- cially recent ones, sometimes confabulates or invents memories to fill the gaps, ...

But according to equipotential theory, all areas of the brain contribute equally to overall intellec- tual functioning (Krech, 1 ...

functioning in a rather intuitive fashion, without much empirical evidence for their validity. How- ever, all these methods are ...

missing the proper reconstruction of a block design task or for pushing the blocks off the examiner’s table in anger is likely t ...

highly concrete manner. Some of the more com- monly used tests to assess abstract reasoning abilities include the Similarities s ...

The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (Lezak, Howieson, & Loring, 2004) is used by many neuropsychologists to assess visual ...

certain WAIS-IV subtests, such as the Block Design subtest. Several specialized tests of these skills are also available. For ex ...

answers, the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Batterywas developed (Halstead, 1947; Reitan & Davison, 1974). This is now u ...

motor functions, rhythm functions, tactile func- tions, visual functions, receptive speech, expressive speech, writing functions ...

disease) or nonprogressive (as is often true in the case of strokes or head traumas). Answers provided by clinical neuropsycholo ...