"The initial goal that had led to the first edition of this book remains unchanged. That is, we hope to provide a ready reference to assist the busy clinician or doctoral-level trainee selecting from among the many hundreds of tests and assessment techniques that are widely available. A principal aim of this reference book is to help guide the clinician in developing tailored, hypothesis-driven approaches for the assessment of patients with a broad range of common neuropsychological syndromes or neurological disorders. As before, this volume is designed for health care providers who need to make examination strategy decisions rapidly while working in the hospital inpatient unit. For the advanced trainee, we hope that this book will prove particularly useful at times when your clinical supervisors are not readily available themselves. This volume should provide for clinical neuropsychology what already exists for most all other medical or health care specialties: a diagnostic guide that fits into the lab coat pocket (I concede that this book may be a bit heavy for some pockets!). Such manuals "for the house officer" (at least one for each specialty) provide a ready source of information to aid in the differential diagnoses of relevant clinical syndromes. With this edited volume, we attempt to provide a readily available handbook for neuropsychology interns, postdoctoral fellows, and practicing clinicians"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). Common terms and phrases: ability abnormalities activity acute addition adults American aphasia areas artery assessment associated attention battery behavioral blood brain cause cerebral changes clinical cognitive cognitive impairment common complex comprehension considered damage deficits dementia depression developed diagnosis differential difficulty disease disorders dysfunction early effects emotional epilepsy et al evaluation examination example executive exposure factors findings frontal function helpful imaging impairment important increased indicate individuals injury involves Journal language learning lesions limited lobe measures memory ment mild motor movement multiple naming neglect neurological neuropsychological normal noted object observed occur older onset particularly patients performance personality possible present Press primary problems processing psychiatric Psychological recall recent recognition referred regions relatively reported require response Scale screening seizures selection sensory severe specific studies suggest symptoms syndrome Table tasks temporal tests tion treatment tumors typically usually verbal visual York