Assessment of executive functioning in brain injury: Collaboration between speech-language pathology and neuropsychology for an integrative neuropsychological perspective

Brain Injury

Volumn 26, Issue 13-14, 2012, Pages 1549-1563

  Constantinidou, Fofi ^a   Wertheimer, Jeffrey C ^b   Tsanadis, John ^c   Evans, Clea ^d   Paul, Diane R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d Methodist Rehabilitation Centre   (United States)

^e AMERICAN SPEECH LANGUAGE HEARING ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired brain injury; Executive functioning; Interdisciplinary team; Neuropsychology; Rehabilitation; Speech language pathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR RATING INVENTORY OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT OF THE DYSEXECUTIVE SYNDROME; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BROCK ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONING QUESTIONNAIRE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DEFICIT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RIVERMEAD BEHAVIORAL MEMORY TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; TEST OF EVERYDAY ATTENTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84868113268     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2012.698786     Document Type: Article

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