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Publication Clinical Neuropsychology: issues and applications(Institute of Medicine, 2000) Sharma, Vibha; Sinha, Uday KAbstract Neuropsychology is the speciality of clinical psychology, which deals with the study of brain behavior relationship. Clinical neuropsychology uses the principles and procedures of neuropsychology in clinical setting to understand brain related problems or clinical conditions, to intervene into them, to manage them, and to rehabilitate persons suffering from such conditions. Neuropsychological assessment is very important aspect of clinical neuropsychology, which attempts to generate structural as well as functional descriptions of the clients’ present status in order to manage the problem more effectively from biopsychosocial perspective. The behavioral neurology approach, single test approach, neuropsychological battery approach, and qualitative or individual-centered normative approach of neuropsychological assessment have successively developed over the time; each of them have their own merits and limitations. The discipline of clinical neuropsychology has been proved to be an effective concomitant of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry all over the world and its application in present day’s neuromedicine has been accepted with respect. The present article discusses various applications of clinical neuropsychology along with major challenges of the subject in detail. Keywords: Clinical neuropsychology, neuropsychological assessment, behavioral neurology, neuropsychological test, clinical psychologyPublication Development of a scale for assessing academic stress: a preliminary report(Institute of Medicine, 2001) Sinha, Uday K; Sharma, Vibha; Nepal, Mahendra KAbstract This article describes the process of development and standardization of the Scale for Assessing Academic Stress (SAAS) on a sample of 400 high school and college students of different grades. Thirty item scale prepared based on 'yes' and 'no' format was found to have high test -retest and split-half reliability, adequate internal consistency, adequate validity against Academic Anxiety Scale for Children (AASC) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and ability to yield normally distributed data on academic stress. Separate norms for boys and girls of different grades (grade VIII to grade XII) were developed. Clinical, research, educational and other implications of the scale is discussed along with the need for further studies on different population. Keywords: Scale, academic stress, reliability, validity, norm, internal consistency