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<p>1. Introduction: Overview and challenges of cognitive and behavioral assessment.- 2.Neuroanatomical and neurophysiological underpinnings of cognition and behavior: Cerebral networks and intrinsic brain networks.- 3. Clinical presentations: mild behavioral impairment, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and cognitive reserve and its implications.- 4. Cognitive Reserve.-5. Bedside mental status evaluation: Overview, Coconuts, Cobe 50.- 6. Neuropsychological Testing and computerized cognitive testing.-7. Prefrontal network for executive control of cognition and comportment including the executive control, salience (ventral attention) and semantic appraisal (SAN) networks.- 8. Default Mode Network (mentalizing) and limbic network for explicit episodic memory syndromes.-9. Right dominant frontoparietal network for spatial orientation (Dorsal attention (visuospatial attention).- 10. Left dominant peri-sylvian network for language syndromes (and Language ICN network).- 11. Occipitotemporal network for face and object recognition syndromes (Visual network) occipitoparietal and provincial hub syndromes.- 12. Provincial hub syndromes, temporal, parietal, acquired cultural circuits.-13. Neuroplasticity and other treatment options for cognitive and behavioral neurological syndromes.- 14. Who needs evaluation? The case for you, leadership, executives and people in public office­­­­­­­.</p><br><p></p>

<p>Michael Hoffmann, MD, PhD</p><p>Department of Neurology</p><p>University of Central Florida</p><p>Orlando VA Medical Center</p><p>Orlando, FL 32801</p><p> </p><p>USA</p>

This first-of-its-kind book offers clinicians a unique and comprehensive system of cognitive and behavioral testing that is tiered and context-appropriate for the diagnosis of mental status. Because the&nbsp;challenge nowadays with neurologic syndrome presentations is no longer merely lesion localization, but the degree, extent and nature of a cognitive and/or behavioral impairment, this work proposes a more targeted system of mentation evaluation&nbsp; -- one that incorporates&nbsp;behavioral, neurological, neuropsychiatric, and neuropsychological components.&nbsp;<p></p><p>Developed by synthesizing outcomes data from a range of stroke registries, this novel work offers a stepwise, hierarchical approach to mentation evaluation largely determined by level of consciousness and degree of cooperation. &nbsp;Organized across 14 chapters, the book begins with an introduction to the challenges of cognitive and behavioral assessment, as well as a discussion of various clinical presentations ranging from mild behavioral impairment to cognitive reserve and its implications. &nbsp;Subsequent chapters then address various approaches to mental status evaluation and explore how these tests affect brain physiology. The work closes with a unique discussion of the various lay populations that may benefit from cognitive and behavioral evaluation.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Authored by a renowned expert in the field,&nbsp;<em>Clinical Mentation Evaluation: A Connectomal Approach to Rapid and Comprehensive Assessment</em>&nbsp;is an invaluable reference that seeks to revitalize neurological and psychiatric disease measurement within the clinical setting.&nbsp; The work will be of interest to all clinicians in training and clinical practice who regularly, or even periodically, conduct mental status examination.</p>

<p>Features a tiered approach with rapid, intermediate and longer assessments depending on the clinical urgency and context.</p><p>Incorporates neurological, neuropsychological, neuropsychiatric and language assessments.</p><p>Based on the newly appreciated network organization of the brain which subserve these cognitive processes.</p>