The Neuropsychology of Aging

List of Tables.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Introduction and Overview:.

1. Neuropsychological Approaches to Processes of Aging.

2. Neuropsychological Assessment in Adulthood and Aging.

3. Methods of Assessing the Aging Brain.

Part II: Aging and the Nervous System:.

4. Normal Aging in the Peripheral Nervous System.

5. Normal Aging in the Brain.

6. Neuropsychological Brain Aging.

7. Emotion, Aging and Brain Function.

Part III: Human Behaviour: A Neuropsychological Perspective:.

8. Arousal and Sleep.

9. Response Speed and Timing in Behaviour.

10. Intelligence.

11. Learning and Memory.

12. Language and Communication.

13. Executive Function, Attention and Working Memory.

Part IV: The Future:.

14. Prospects on the Neuropsychology of Aging.

References.

Index.