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Executive Functioning Yana Suchy

Executive Functioning By Yana Suchy

Executive Functioning by Yana Suchy


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The book offers an in-depth, comprehensive, and clinically applicable analysis of executive functioning (EF). Five subdomains of EF are described.

Executive Functioning Summary

Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice by Yana Suchy

Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice is the first book to offer an in-depth, comprehensive, and clinically applicable analysis of executive functioning (EF), as contrasted with frontal-lobe functioning. Throughout the book, care is taken to stay true to the EF construct, and to use function, not structure, as the organising framework. The book is organised into four parts. The first part provides a brief overview of historical, theoretical, and clinical influences on how the construct has been conceptualized, studied, and ultimately defined. Part II describes five subdomains of EF, including Executive Cognitive Functions, Meta-tasking, Response Selection, Initiation/Maintenance, and Social Cognition. For each subdomain, the book reviews contributing elemental neurocognitive processes, neuroanatomic underpinnings, the utility of the subdomain in execution of daily tasks, as well as associated clinical syndromes. For each syndrome, cognitive and personality changes in daily life, as well as presentation during neuropsychological assessment, are described, and typical clinical populations characterized by each syndrome are briefly reviewed. Part III describes assessment methods, addressing both challenges and solutions in the neuropsychological evaluations of EF. An integration of information across record review, clinical interview, behavioural observation, and standardised assessment is advocated, as is consideration of assessment results within the contextual complexities of a given patient. Lastly, Part IV provides an overview of populations that are characterized by deficiencies in EF, with a chapter each devoted to neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as acquired brain insults and medical conditions.

Executive Functioning Reviews

Yana Suchy has written an excellent volume on executive functions. It is comprehensive, thoughtful, and to the point. Practical information is seamlessly integrated with a lucid review of scientific foundations. The book will serve as an invaluable resource for clinicians, clinical neuroscientists, and students of neuropsychology. * Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D, ABPP, Director, Luria Neuroscience Institute *

About Yana Suchy

Dr. Suchy is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah. She is a Board-certified clinical neuropsychologist, and a Fellow of the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (APA) and the National Academy of Neuropsychology. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Clinical Neuropsychologist, and has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. She has authored the book The Clinical Neuropsychology of Emotion (2011), and her research on the interface among executive, affective, and motor processes appears regularly in mainstream peer-reviewed neuropsychology journals.

Table of Contents

Part I: Beyond the Frontal Lobes: Introduction to Part I * Chapter 1: Executive Functions as a Neurocognitive Construct Part II: Executive Subdomains and the Associated Syndromes: Introduction to Part II * Chapter 2: Executive Cognitive Functions and the Dysexecutive Syndrome * Chapter 3: Meta-tasking and the Disorganized Syndrome * Chapter 4: Response Selection and the Disinhibited Syndrome * Chapter 5: Initiation and Maintenance and the Apathetic Syndrome * Chapter 6: Social Cognition and the Inappropriate Syndrome Part III: Clinical Assessment of Executive Functions: Introduction to Part III * Chapter 7: Gathering Background Information * Chapter 8: Challenges in the Use of Standardized Tests of Executive Functions * Chapter 9: Interpretive Consideration Part IV: Executive Dysfunction in Clinical Populations: Introduction to Part IV * Chapter 10: Neurodevelopmental Disorders * Chapter 11: Neurodegenerative Disorders * Chapter 12: Neuropsychiatric Disorders * Chapter 13: Acquired Brain Insults and Medical Conditions Appendix References Index

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NLS9780199890323
9780199890323
0199890323
Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice by Yana Suchy
New
Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
2015-12-17
352
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