As cognitive dysfunction is the core symptom of dementia, the assessment of it is essential for the clinical practice. The role of "neuropsychology" is none other than analysis and interpretation of the central symptoms of brain damaged including dementing illnesses. "Neuropsychology" in this sense does not refer only to the neuropsychological tests that psychologists employ, but certainly impl...

ratio between the number of citations in a given year to any item published in that journal in the previous two years and the number of research items published in the same journal in the same two years (Garfield, 2001). Several potential pitfalls of IF have been pointed out (see Discussion Forum in Cortex, issue 37, no. 4, 2001). Still IF is widely acknowledged as the standard measure for scie...

Abstract Objective The current pandemic shed a necessary light on chronic systemic inequities. Despite awareness of the importance diversity, equity, social justice, and advocacy, actionable change has been slow. field neuropsychology psychology were founded principles universal rights for all humans, yet it largely neglected justice activities. Social advocacy efforts are not universally embed...

Over the past 20 years, clinical neuropsychologists have been at the forefront of both scientific and clinical initiatives aimed at developing evidence-based approaches to the evaluation and management of sport-related concussion (SRC). These efforts have directly impacted current policy on strategies for injury assessment and return-to-play by athletes after concussion. Many states are conside...

1 Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram, Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center of CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10016, 2 Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram, Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center of CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10016, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1230, NY, NY 10029, 4 Department of Psychology, Que...

It is argued that in poorly understood domains functional imaging and neuropsychology findings on cognitive processes can be related only through functional models of normal cognition. The psychological concept of "resource" can, however, be simply extrapolated to functional imaging. It is then argued that double dissociations can have analogous inferential power for extrapolation to models of ...