I. Introduction -- 1. Overview 2 -- 2. Flexible Approaches -- 3. Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery -- 4. Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery -- 5. Neuropsychological Evaluations and Reports -- II. Factors that Influence Test Performance -- 6. Peripheral Motor and Sensory Impairments -- 7. Handedness -- 8. Aging -- 9. Education, Gender, and Ethnicity -- 10. Anxiety, Amotivation, and Fatigue -- III. Assessment Strategies and Instruments -- 11. Records Review -- 12. Interview -- 13. Behavioral Observations -- 14. Mental Status Evaluation -- 15. Orientation -- 16. Attention -- 17. Memory -- 18. Intelligence, General Knowledge, and Social Understanding -- 19. Speech and Language -- 20. Arithmetic -- 21. Visual-Spatial Functioning -- 22. Tactile Functioning -- 23. Motor Functioning -- 24. Executive Functioning -- 25. Malingering -- 26. Personality -- IV. Deficits, Competencies, and Disabilities -- 27. Deficit Determination -- 28. Self-Care and Independent Living -- 29. Driving -- 30. Academic and Vocational Functioning -- 31. Civil Competency Evaluations -- 32. Disability Evaluations -- V. Psychosocial Therapies -- 33. Coma Stimulation -- 34. Behavior Modification -- 35. Cognitive Rehabilitation -- 36. Psychotherapy: Individual, Family, and Group -- VI. Disorders -- 37. Closed Head Injury -- 38. Stroke -- 39. Epilepsy -- 40. Alzheimer's Disease -- 41. Parkinson's Disease -- 42. Multiple Sclerosis -- 43. Huntington's Disease -- 44. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy -- 45. Human Immunodeficiency Virus -- 46. Brain Tumors -- 47. Anoxia-Hypoxia -- 48. Alcohol -- 49. Drugs and Neurotoxins -- 50. Schizophrenia -- 51. Depression -- About the Author