The Scientific Foundation of Neuropsychological Assessment

神经心理学是一 个心理学专科领域，聚焦于大脑和包括认知、行为和情感在内的人体功能之间的关系。神经心理学的重点是科学的方法，包括了分析定量数据，对大脑活动通过标准评估进行信息处理，从而评估各种心理功能。本书考察神经心理学中标准化系列测试，特别聚焦于这些测试在法医方面的应用，提示我们需要建立起统一的评估理论。本书糅合了多篇与法医神经心理学相关论文，为标准化系列测试提供了神经学和心理测定学理论基础，同时比较了标准化和变通系列。文中最终提出论点需要采用标准化系列测试，并解释了此方法的可靠性，特别是与司法鉴定证词相关时。与此同时，文中还提及正式程序在评估中的应用，包括高等数学程序，例如公式和决策树算法。本书完整考查了标准化系列测试在神经心理学评估中的理论和时间应用，使临床执业医师和律师在处理案例时能够从中获益。

Neuropsychology is a specialized branch of psychology which focuses on the relationship between the brain and human functions including cognition, behaviour, and emotion. With an emphasis on a scientific approach which includes analysing quantitative data, neuropsychology follows an information processing approach to brain activity using standard assessments to evaluate various mental functions. This book examines the standardized battery of tests in neuropsychology, with a particular focus on forensic applications of these tests, suggesting that a united theory of assessment needs to be established. Bringing together multiple articles related to forensic neuropsychology, this book offers an exploration of the neurological and psychometric theoretical basis for standardized batteries as well as a comparison between flexible and standardized batteries. Ultimately, it is argued that a standardized battery of tests need to be used and explains the justification for the reliability of this approach, especially in relation to expert witness testimony. While doing this, formal procedures, including advanced mathematical procedures such as formulas and decision tree algorithms, are presented to be utilized in assessments.
With its thorough examination of the theoretical and practical applications of a standardized battery in neuropsychological assessment, this book will prove helpful to clinical practitioners and attorneys using assessment for their cases.