Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- The Cambridge Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- Part I General Issues in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- Part II Specific Clinical Assessment Methods
- Part III Assessment and Diagnosis of Specific Mental Disorders
- 21 Assessment of Childhood Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- 22 Assessment of Childhood Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- 23 Assessment of Depressive Disorders and Suicidality
- 24 Assessment of Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- 25 Assessment of Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
- 26 Assessment of People with Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders
- 27 Assessment of Eating Disorders
- 28 Assessment of Substance Use Disorders
- 29 Assessment of Personality Disorder
- 30 Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia
- 31 Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injuries
- Part IV Clinical Assessment in Specific Settings
- Index
- References
30 - Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia
from Part III - Assessment and Diagnosis of Specific Mental Disorders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2019
- The Cambridge Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- The Cambridge Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- Part I General Issues in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- Part II Specific Clinical Assessment Methods
- Part III Assessment and Diagnosis of Specific Mental Disorders
- 21 Assessment of Childhood Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- 22 Assessment of Childhood Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- 23 Assessment of Depressive Disorders and Suicidality
- 24 Assessment of Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- 25 Assessment of Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
- 26 Assessment of People with Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders
- 27 Assessment of Eating Disorders
- 28 Assessment of Substance Use Disorders
- 29 Assessment of Personality Disorder
- 30 Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia
- 31 Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injuries
- Part IV Clinical Assessment in Specific Settings
- Index
- References
Summary
Neuropsychological assessment plays an important role in detecting and characterizing the dementia syndrome associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Comprehensive cognitive testing can identify mild cognitive deficits that typically occur in early stages of AD and can detect subtle cognitive changes that occur in the preclinical or prodromal stages of the disease before the onset of frank dementia. Recent evidence suggests that profiles of AD-related cognitive deficits may differ across cultures, perhaps due to incomplete or inappropriate adaptation of tests, distinct health factors (e.g., high vascular risk) that may impact cognition, or differences in normative data arising from education or health disparities. Neuropsychological assessment can also aid in differential diagnosis by identifying distinct cognitive profiles associated with AD and other neurodegenerative disorders that engender different distributions of brain pathology. These comparisons provide a useful method for understanding brain-behavior relationships that mediate the affected cognitive abilities.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis , pp. 416 - 430Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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