Part I: Psychometric and Large-Scale Information -- Chapter 1. Uniform Labeling of Performance Test Scores -- Chapter 2. Sensitivity and Specificity of Common PVTs and SVTs -- Chapter 3. Common Psychometric Formulas -- Chapter 4. Cognitive Side Effects of Common Medications -- Part II: Diseases and Disorders Affecting the Brain and/or Cognitive Test Performance -- Chapter 5. Abscess -- Chapter 6. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) -- Chapter 7. Adult ADHD -- Chapter 8. Affective Disorders -- Chapter 9. Alcohol-Associated Cognitive Disorders -- Chapter 10. Alzheimer's Disease -- Chapter 11. Anoxia/Hypoxia -- Chapter 12. Cancer and Neoplasm -- Chapter 13. Cerebrovascular Accident -- Chapter 14. Delirium -- Chapter 15. Dementia with Lewy Bodies -- Chapter 16. Epilepsy and Seizures -- Chapter 17. Frontotemporal Dementias -- Chapter 18. Hashimoto's Encephalopathy -- Chapter 19. Hepatic Encephalopathy -- Chapter 20. HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder -- Chapter 21. HSV Encephalitis -- Chapter 22. Hydrocephalus -- Chapter 23. Lyme Disease -- Chapter 24. Malingering and Invalid Test Performance -- Chapter 25. Meningitis -- Chapter 26. Mild Cognitive Impairment -- Chapter 27. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury -- Chapter 28. Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury -- Chapter 29. Multiple Sclerosis -- Chapter 30. Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) -- Chapter 31. Neurosyphilis -- Chapter 32. Paraneoplastic Syndrome -- Chapter 33. Parkinson's Disease and Parkinson's Disease Dementia. -- Chapter 34. Persistent Postconcussion Syndrome -- Chapter 35. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalitis (PML) -- Chapter 36. Prion Diseases -- Chapter 37. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (PNES) -- Chapter 38. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Chapter 39. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders -- Chapter 40. Serotonin Syndrome -- Chapter 41. Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Chapter 42. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus -- Chapter 43. Transient Ischemic Attack -- Chapter 44. Vascular Dementia -- Chapter 45. Vitamin Deficiencies -- Chapter 46. Wilson's Disease.

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The goal of this book is to provide brief-but-comprehensive information that can aid in rapid differential diagnosis and allow for more thorough follow-up if needed. This guide is intended to fit easily into the pocket of a lab coat or on your desk, giving readers an efficient way to find information about a specific disease or disorder to prepare for an upcoming case. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 involves general psychometric and reference information including score classifications, formulas for score conversion, likelihood chaining, and reliable change, psychometric data for stand-alone and embedded PVTs, and the effects of common medications on cognition. Part 2 of the book is organized alphabetically by disease or disorder to promote quick searching, and each chapter provides straightforward information including definitions, subtypes, etiology, epidemiology, course, diagnostic criteria, expectations for test results, and links to more comprehensive sources. Whenever possible, information is gathered through up-to-date literature and high quality pubilcations such as systematic reviews or meta-analyses. Helpful references are provided for more extensive follow-up or further reading.