Neuropsychological Assessment IV: A Moderate (Not-So-Extreme)
Makeover of an Old Friend
Russell M.
Bauer
Ph.D. ABPP
a1
a1 Department of Clinical and Health Psychology,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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Neuropsychological
Assessment, Fourth Edition. Muriel D.
Lezak, Diane B. Howieson, and David W. Loring, with H. Julia Hannay and
Jill S. Fischer. 2004, New York: Oxford University Press. 1016 pp., $89.50
(HB).
When I was in my 3rd year of graduate school, I became interested in
neuropsychology and purchased the first (1976) edition of Muriel
Lezak's Neuropsychological
Assessment to help prepare for my
qualifying examination. It was the first neuropsychology book I ever owned
and it was one of the few textbooks I have ever read from cover to cover.
Neuropsychological
Assessment is one of the classics in the field
of clinical neuropsychology. It and the subsequent three editions of this
classic have both reflected and shaped the field it represents. The book,
often referred to as “Lezak,” is without question the
most widely-consulted source on neuropsychological assessment as a
clinical enterprise. The fourth edition continues in the great tradition
of its predecessors, except that the sheer scope and magnitude of current
work in neuropsychological assessment has now made an exhaustive and
inclusive review of available tests impossible. As indicated in the
preface, the revised goal of “Lezak IV” is to provide a
“broad but necessarily and selectively restricted range of the
information that is currently relevant and necessary for understanding and
undertaking neuropsychological assessment.”
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