Casebook of Clinical Neuropsychology

Casebook of Clinical Neuropsychology features actual clinical neuropsychological cases drawn from leading experts' files. Each chapter represents a different case completed by a different expert. Cases cover the lifespan from child, to adult, to geriatric, and the types of cases will represent a broad spectrum of prototypical cases of well-known and well-documented disorders as well as some rarer disorders. Chapter authors were specifically chosen for their expertise with particular disorders. When a practitioner is going to see a child or an adult with "X" problem, they can turn to the "case" and find up to date critical information to help them understand the issues related to the diagnosis, a brief synopsis of the literature, the patient's symptom presentation, the evaluation including neuropsychological test results and other results from consultants, along with treatments and recommendations. Clinical cases represent a long-established tradition as a teaching vehicle in the clinical sciences, most prominently in medicine and psychology. Case studies provide the student with actual clinical material - data in the form of observations of the patient, examination/test data, relevant history, and related test results - all of which must be integrated into a diagnostic conclusion and ultimately provide the patient with appropriate recommendations. Critical to this educational/heuristic process is the opportunity for the reader to view the thought processes of the clinician that resulted in the conclusions and recommendations offered. With the science of the disorder as the foundation of this process, readers learn how the integration of multiple sources of data furthers critical thinking skills.

JM:Joel E. Morgan, Department of Neurology & Neurosciences, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ ISB: Ida Sue Baron, Ph.D., ABPP-CN Director of Neuropsychology Department of Pediatrics Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Falls Church, VA & Professor of Pediatrics University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, VA JHR:Joseph H. Ricker, PhD, ABPP (CN, RP) Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Neuropsychology & Rehabilitation Psychology Dept of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Contributor List
I. Genetic/Developmental Disorders
1. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - Kimberly Kerns and Heather Carmichael Olson 2. Asperger's Disorder - Lauren Kenworthy 3. The Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Childhood: A Case Report - Marianne Barton, Katelin Carr, Lauren Herlihy, Kelley Knoch and Deborah Fein 4. Autism Spectrum Disorders: A case of Siblings - Stephen M. Kanne and Janet E. Farmer 5. Dyslexia in a Young Adult - Robert L. Mapou 6. Tourette Syndrome - E. Mark Mahone 7. Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele - John Brigham Fulton and Keith Owen Yeates 8. A Case of Cerebral Palsy (Spastic Diplegia) - T. Andrew Zabel and Adam T. Schmidty 9. Sickle Cell Disease - Karen E. Wills 10. A Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 - Jennifer A. Janusz 11. Focal Cortical Dysplasia and Epilepsy Surgery - Elisabeth M.S. Sherman, Harvey B. Sarnat, Ismail Mohamed, Daniel J. Slick and Walter J. Hader 12. Landau-Kleffner Syndrome - Gerry A. Stefanatos and Andrew T. DeMarco 13. CNS Germinoma: The Effects of Central Tumors on Neuropsychological Function - Brenda J. Spiegler 14. A Case of Liver Transplantation in Maple Syrup Urine Disease - Lisa G. Hahn and Joel E. Morgan
II. Traumatic and Accidental
1. Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: All Cases Are Not Complicated Equally - Michael W. Kirkwood 2. Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects of Questionable Effort - Jacobus Donders 3. From Preschool to College: Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury Sustained During Early Childhood - Linda Ewing-Cobbs and Mary R. Prasad 4. Well Documented, Serious Brain Dysfunction Followed by Malingering - Jerry J. Sweet and Dawn Giuffre Meyer 5. Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury - Tresa Roebuck-Spencer 6. Why Would He Do It? A case of Probable Malingering in the Context of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury - Daniel J. Slick, Jing E. Tan and Esther Strauss 7. A Case of Recovery Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury - Scott Mooney and Robin Hanks 8. Hypoxia After Near Drowning - John T. Beetar
III. Neuro-Psychiatric
1. ADHD and Anxiety Disorder: An Atypical Presentation of a "Typical" Disorder - Kira Armstrong 2. A Case of Somatoform Disorder with Inconsistent Effort - Beth S. Slomine and Ericka Wodka 3. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Case Study - Ann C. Marcotte and Miriam T. Goldstein 4. First Episode Schizophrenia - Anthony J. Giuliano and Bernice A. Marcopulos 5. Late-Onset Depression vs. Dementia - Tracy D. Vannorsdall and David J. Schretlen 6. Release Hallucinations: Uninvited Guests and Phantom Orchestras - Michael Sharland and Thomas A. Hammeke 7. Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizure Disorder: The Case of P.S. - Christopher L. Grote and Maria J. Marquine
IV. Neurologic/Other Medical Conditions
1. Micropremature Birth - Jennifer C. Gidley Larson, Ida Sue Baron, Margot D. Ahronovich and Mary Iampietro 2. Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus - Lisa D. Ravdin and Heather L. Katzen 3. A Case of Childhood Lead Poisoning - Marsha J. Nortz and M. Douglas Ris 4. Neurobehavioral and Neurodevelopmental Sequelae Associated with Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection - Helen A. Steigmeyer and Antolin M. Llorente 5. Language Dominant Neocortical Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - Deborah Cahn-Weiner 6. Dominant Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - William J. McMullen 7. Serial Neuropsychological Assessment in a Case of Huntington's Disease - David E. Tupper 8. Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma: Post-resection Amnesia in a College Student - Benjamin L. Johnson-Markve and Gregory P. Lee 9. Cerebral Neoplasm: Glioblastoma Multiforme - Robert E. Hanlon, Martin D. Oliveira and James P. Chandler 10. A Case of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia - Robert Butler 11. Detecting Deficits in High Functioning Patients - Bradley N. Axelrod 12. Neuropsychological Effects of Surgical Resection of a Colloid Cyst: A Case Presentation - Aaron C. Malina 13. Anoxic Brain Injury: Two Cases of Anoxic Brain Injury Secondary to Cardiac Arrest - Leslie D. Rosenstein and Paul A. Friedman 14. A Case of and Hepatic Encephalopathy in End Stage Liver Disease Alcoholic Cirrhosis - Marc A. Norman 15. Cerebral Neoplasm: Medulloblastoma - Celiane Rey-Casserly and Tanya Diver 16. Pediatric Epilepsy - Philip S. Fastenau
V. Neuro-Degenerative Disorders
1. Childhood Multiple Sclerosis - Ben Deery and Vicki Anderson 2. Adult MS - Darcy Cox 3. Progressive Non-fluent Aphasia - Kimberly M. Miller, Sherrill R. Loring and David. W. Loring 4. A Case of Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease - Ruth E. Yoash-Gantz 5. Looking into the Crystal Ball of Mild Cognitive Impairment: What I See is Alzheimer's Disease - Jim Andrikopoulos 6. Clinical and Neuropathologic Presentation of Dementia with Lewy bodies - Tanis J. Ferman 7. A Case of Corticobasal Syndrome - John A. Lucas 8. Motor and Cognitive Characteristics in a Case of Static Encephalopathy - David E. Tupper 9. Two Neuropsychologists with Huntington's Disease - Jason Brandt and Barnett Shpritz 10. Cognitive and Behavioral Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - Beth K. Rush 11. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy - Alexander I. Tröster and Rebecca C. Williams 12. Pick's Disease - Shane S. Bush and Thomas Myers
VI. Vascular Disorders
1. Neuropsychological Assessment in a Case of Left Middle Cerebral Artery (MVA) Stroke - Erin D. Bigler 2. Language Impairments Following Basal Ganglia Stroke: Hold and Release Functions in Cognition - Alyssa J. Braaten, Anna Bacon Moore, Eileen L. Cooley and Anthony Y. Stringer 3. Vascular Dementia - Nikki H. Stricker, Joseph R. Sadek and Kathleen Y. Haaland 4. Large Right-Hemisphere Hemorrhagic Stroke - Ellen M. Crouse and Brad L. Roper 5. Ruptured Aneurysm of the Anterior Communicating Artery - Marykay Pavol and Rashmi Rastogi