Trouble in Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist's Casebook
"New Zealander Dr Jenni Ogden, one of the world's foremost clinical neuropsychologists, is well worth listening to. Her compassion, care, experience, and supreme interest in the human condition and its stories is evident. Her technical exposition, and choice of references, covering the fundamentals of cognitive dysfunction and its impact, hits themark... Dr Ogden brings great depth to understanding cognitive disability in this book. Anyone with even a passing interest in the brain and mind (meaning, any reader of the MJA) will benefit from her book-- it is great value for money." -- John D G Watson,Medical Journal of Australia"Through her writing style and expertise in clinical neuropsychology [Jenni Ogden] is able to empathetically convey the emotional impact of neurological injury to patient, friends, and family together with detailed descriptions of the facts of the case from a scientific perspective. Technical language is well defined and scientific jargon held to a minimum without watering down content. This approach makes this book understandable to any interested reader as well as offering new insights to students and seasoned health care professionals alike. ... I highly recommend this book to the student of neuropsychology, who while they are studying neuroanatomy and assessment will also hopefully grow to appreciate the uniqueness of each patient, and to the practicing neuropsychologist, to remind us that all of our most interesting cases are real people." --Journal of the InternationalNeuropsychological Society"This is a book that succeeds in its main objective, which is to appeal to the general reader as well as experts in the field of neuropsychological rehabilitation. This is not an easy task and is rarely achieved, yet the author manages it with supreme confidence and great skill. She combines her natural talents as storyteller and gifted writer with her considerable experience as a highly regarded professional neuropsychologist. [...] Ogden manages to appeal to that specalist audience with the power of her commentary." --Taylor & Francis Online