Presentasjon av hovedforelesere på

årsmøtekurs i Norsk Nevropsykologisk Forening Torsdag 13. – Lørdag 15. November

Holmenkollen Park Hotel, Oslo Social outcomes of childhood brain disorders. Outcomes of mild TBI in children and adolescents. Keith Owen Yeates, PhD, ABPP/CN, Director of the Division of Pediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Director of the Center for Biobehavioral Health at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics, Psychology and Psychiatry at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. http://www.nationwidechildrens.org/keith-o-yeates

Keith Owen Yeates, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Psychology, and Psychiatry at The Ohio State University. He is Director of the Center for Biobehavioral Health at The Research Institute, and Chief of the Section of Pediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology, both at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He holds a Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Yeates has served as President of the Society of Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Psychological Association and of the Association of Postdoctoral Programs in Clinical Neuropsychology. He was named the

Canadian Association of Child Neurology John Tibbles Lecturer by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2004, was a Visiting Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society in 2006, received the Arthur Benton Award from the International Neuropsychological Society in 2011, and was the Charles Matthew Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2013. He has received substantial external grant funding for research that focuses on the neurobehavioral outcomes of childhood brain disorders, including an Independent Scientist Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Yeates is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society and serves on the editorial boards of several other scientific journals. He has been a regular member of three United States Federal grant review panels. He has published over 135 peer-reviewed journal articles, 40 book chapters, and 4 edited books.

Deconstructing mental processes: Principles and applications of the Quantified Process Approach. Amir Poreh, Professor, Dept. of psychology, Cleveland State University, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve Medical Center. http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=A_POREH

Dr. Amir Poreh is a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in the assessment of cognitive disorders. He completed his graduate training at Wayne State University and later completed his Post-Doctoral training under Dr. Paul Satz at UCLA. He holds a Diplomat in the American Board of Assessment Psychology, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Cleveland Sate University where he has been on faculty since 2004 and is a Clinical Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Prior to arriving at CSU he was a faculty member at Hebrew University and worked as a neuropsychologist in the

Department of Neurosurgery at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center of Tel Hashomer where he was responsible for conducting intra-operative and Wada neuropsychological testing. Dr. Poreh has over 41 peer reviewed articles and 7 book chapters. He also published 5 neuropsychological software titles. In 2000 Dr. Poreh developed a new approach to neuropsychological assessment called the "Quantified Process Approach." The new approach emphasizes the decomposition of traditional test scores and uses modern data capture technologies to quantitatively score the process by which patients solve problems, thus bridging the American pragmatic empiricist approach and the European qualitative tradition. Lecture: Since the late 1800's, European psychologists have been interested in discerning the strategies subjects employ to solve psychological tests. In contrast, American psychologists chose a pragmatic psychometric approach to psychological testing. In the '70s Edith Kaplan adapted the European approach to standardized neuropsychological measures. This approach was initially received with a great deal of enthusiasm but due to the qualitative nature of her observations, it was rejected by most American clinicians and researchers. The Quantified Process Approach is aimed at blending the American and European traditions. In the lecture Dr. Poreh will outline the methodological principles of the Quantified Process Approach, demonstrate computer software that streamlines the complex data collection process, and examine the utility of the new approach using both single case and large scale studies. Finally, Dr. Poreh will discuss how normative data generated using this new methodology allow neuropsychologists to extrapolate about the structure and resilience of various cognitive domains.

Psychotherapy and cognitive impairment. Integrating the subjective experience of identity, self and self-regulation in brain injury rehabilitation. Dr. Fergus Gracey, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and Practitioner Researcher, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Trust. http://www.ozc.nhs.uk/default.asp?id=52

Dr. Gracey is a consultant clinical neuropsychologist affiliated to the Oliver Zangwill Centre. He works in adult community neurorehabilitation services and leads a service for children with acquired brain injury in Cambridgeshire, UK. Dr. Gracey´s particular clinical and research interests lie in rehabilitation of executive functioning, emotional adjustment to brain injury and cognitive therapy in the context of brain injury. He is a visiting Clinical Associate at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, is an active member of the British Psychological Society's Division of Neuropsychology and an associate editor of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.