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Neuropsychology: Cellular Physiology to Clinical Practice

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Neuropsychology: Cellular Physiology to Clinical Practice

Third Edition   Gasquoine, © 2020, 432 pages

This textbook is suitable for a neuropsychology course.

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About the Author

Philip Gasquoine person
The author is a native of Wellington, New Zealand who was first introduced to neuropsychology when he took a course from Dorothy Gronwall, Ph.D. while a student in the Master of Science program in psychology at the University of Auckland. Limited opportunities for employment in his chosen field in New Zealand provided the impetus for continued study abroad. In 1979 he was accepted as a doctoral student into the neuropsychology subprogram at Queens College of the City University of New York. As part of his doctoral studies he completed a predoctoral internship under the direction of Leonard Diller, Ph.D., at the New York University Medical Center, Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (Rusk Institute) that aroused an interest in cognitive rehabilitation that would influence early career directions.

Mitchell Kietzman, Ph.D., as much a friend as a professor, supervised his doctoral dissertation on the effects of aging on early information processing in the visual system. Exposure to information processing models of cognition convinced the author to become a clinician. His first postdoctoral appointment was as a clinical neuropsychologist at the Head Injury Center at Lewis Bay in Hyannis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where he came under the influence of Edith Kaplan, Ph.D. It was she who taught him how to conduct neuropsychological assessments.

The Lewis Bay experience tempered his enthusiasm about the efficacy of rehabilitation therapies for chronic, severe, traumatic brain injury victims and he soon moved to acute rehabilitation settings first at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii and then at the Rehabilitation Hospital of South Texas in Corpus Christi, Texas.

In 1995 the author set up in independent practice as South Texas Neuropsychology, P.C. in Corpus Christi, Texas. This provided an opportunity to pursue varied areas of practice including: the neuropsychological assessment of patients with postconcussion symptoms, dementias, and learning disorders and forensic neuropsychology, but mostly he learned about the business of clinical neuropsychology.

Concluding that he had learned enough after 20 years of clinical practice to teach others, the author changed his career trajectory to academia and joined the Department of Psychology and Anthropology at the University of Texas – Pan American as an associate professor. This university is situated in the Rio Grande Valley, an area of Texas predominantly populated (90%) by Hispanic Americans just north of the Mexican border. There he developed a modest research agenda on the neuropsychological assessment of Spanish/English bilinguals, earned promotion to full professor, served as the Graduate Psychology Program Director, and as Department Chair. While serving as the Department Chair he was instrumental in creating an independent Department of Psychology.

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The impetus for this textbook came when the author was asked to teach a graduate course in neuropsychology and was dissatisfied with the existing textbooks on the subject. It is unique as a textbook on neuropsychology as follows:

1. This textbook can be used for: (a) undergraduate students taking their first course in behavioral neuroscience with minimal background in the biological sciences; and (b) graduate students who are taking their first course in neuropsychology.
2. Chapters 1 through 12 cover material that can be used in an undergraduate course in behavioral neuroscience. These chapters focus on brain physiology, chemical signaling, psychopharmacology, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, the neuropsychology of cognition, and common neurological conditions. The material is presented in a straightforward format suitable for undergraduate students being exposed to this information for the first time. These chapters serve as an important review when the text is being used with graduate students, for whom chapters 13 through 18 cover clinical neuropsychological assessment in adults. The special topics covered in chapters 19 and 20 review material pertaining to the neuropsychological assessment of children and brain injury rehabilitation that is suitable for both undergraduate (excepting the latter half of chapter 19) and graduate instruction.
3. Within this textbook neuropsychology is narrowly defined as the use of lesion analysis in human patients to further an understanding of brain/behavior relationships. Clinical neuropsychologists provide services to patients with structural brain injury to assist with diagnosis, management, and treatment.
4. Brain/behavior relationships described are those that are supported by a preponderance of the evidence. Isolated, novel, or unclear brain/behavior relationships are not reviewed.
5. A quantitative/qualitative flexible approach to neuropsychological assessment is described with emphasis upon using individual comparison standards as estimates of preexisting neurocognitive skill levels.
6. Neuropsychological assessment of American minorities is discussed including cases studies of bilingual Hispanic Americans.
7. Mental disorder is conceived as problematic behaviors with psychosocial determinants. There is no reliance on the medical “disease” model of psychopathology that is discussed in detail in chapter 4.

The author declares no conflict of interest in selecting material to be included. He received no funding from any source, including any pharmaceutical company, to assist in production. The responsibility for all errors of commission and omission are the author's alone. This third edition corrected several errors noted in the second edition and updated the literature by adding new material throughout.

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