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Evidence-Based Neuropsychology?

Neuropsychological Differential Diagnosis, by Konstantine K. Zakzanis, Larry Leach, and Edith Kaplan. 1999. Lisse, Netherlands: Swets and Zeitlinger Publishers. 265 pp., $79.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2002

William B. Barr
Affiliation:
NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Abstract

Neuropsychologists are placed in an increasing number of situations where they must provide empirical evidence of the validity of their methods. Managed care companies want to know the bottom line of whether a given assessment will have any impact on the patient's medical or psychological care. Expert witnesses are asked increasingly to provide scientific facts regarding the tests used in their assessment battery. Grant review committees inquire about the probability that a given test will yield a significant finding when used with a particular clinical population. It is argued that there is little empirical information available to aid in making these decisions. The volume Neuropsychological Differential Diagnosis by Zakzanis, Leach, and Kaplan takes an initial step in providing this type of information.

Type
Book Review
Copyright
© 2001 The International Neuropsychological Society

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