Little Black Book of Neuropsychology

Mike R. Schoenberg, Ph.D., is Professor of neurosurgery, Brain and Spine Director, Division of Neuropsychology and Professor of Neurology at the University of South Florida, Morisani College of Medicine. He completed a two year post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and an internship at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita. He provides academic support and supervision in clinical neuropsychology to medical students, medical residents and psychology trainees, and conducts research in clinical neuropsychology.James G. Scott, PhD is a Presidential Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine. He has taught medical students, residents and psychology interns and postdoctoral residents in neuropsychology for the past 35 years. He completed his doctorate at Texas A&M University, Internship at Tulane Medical School and a two-year Fellowship in Neuropsychology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  He is a fellow of the National Acadamy of Neuropsychology and has provided clinical care to thousands of patients and served professional organizations in Neuropsychology locally and nationally for many years. He remains active in teaching, research and clinical service in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

• Part I: Neuropsychology – General Issues: The Neuropsychological Referral.- Medical Records.- Basic Neuroanatomy.- Basic components of a Neuropsychological Evaluation.- Part II: Neuropsychological Domains: Arousal: The drowsy, lethargic, or stuporous patient.- Attention/Concentration Problems: The distractible patient.- Inattention/Neglect Syndromes.- Language Problems.- Learning and Memory: The Forgetful Patient.- Visuospatial/Visuoconstructional Problems.- Apraxias.- Agnosias.- Executive Functions (problem solving, abstraction, sequencing, inhibition, self-monitoring, planning, and initiation).- Emotional/Mood.- Episodic Neurological Dysfunction.- Part III: Specific Neurological Diseases: Aphasia.- Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke.- Dementia.- Seizures/Epilepsy.- Somatization Disorders, blackout spells, fits/convulsions.- Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders.- Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Disorders.- Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion.- Infections.- Neoplasms/Neoplastic Syndromes .- Psychiatric – depression and anxiety.- Part IV: Special Considerations: Medicolegal exposure.- Reporting Test performance/scores.- Limitations.- Answering Referral Questions.- Placement issues.