Neuropsychology for Clinical Practice: Etiology, Assessment, and Treatment of Common Neurologic Disorders (APA Clinical Psychology Books)

Rating:
Summary: A basic neuropsychology text
Review: The positives:
This book covers pretty much all of the important, basic neuropsychology issues for the main neurological disorders.
It has well thought out tables of pertinent information and good, clear diagrams.
It is written in an easy to read, relatively jargon-free way and thus is available to neuropsychology-interested people at all levels.
This book contains illustrative case examples, which really help to clarify some of the complexities of neuropsychology.

There is, however, a huge drawback for anyone wanting to use this book as anything other than a basic introduction to neuropsychology, and that is the age of the book.

I bought this book misreading "third printing December 2000" as "revised December 2000". This was silly of me and was entirely my mistake. However, the fact remains that now, in April 2003, some of the information given is out of date, with the majority the research and papers cited in the book being from the late 80s and early 90s. It does not take into account any (and there has been a great deal) of the relevant neuropsychology literature published in the last 8 years.

I probably would not have bought this book if I had realised how old it was, given the number of other, more recent neuropsychology texts available.

However, if the editors brought out a revised and updated edition I would gladly pay double, or more, for it.