PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Agnosia, Phineas Gage, Neuropsychological Assessment
14 Oct 2016
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In the beginning there was no need for assessment, we just assumed impairment and took action. Trepanning: the first (neuro)psychological assessment of abnormality. The ultimate no win situation for an evaluee. If someone was accused of being a witch they would be dunked in water. If they survived they were deemed a witch, and at this point would have their head cut off. Don"t always need a test to indicate abnormal cognition/behavior: patients with psychological/neuropsychological disorders were abundant in asylums. Educational psychology and assessment: franz joseph gall. The originator of what later became phenology. fmri as the modern day human form of brain mapping (phrenology): paul broca: Encountered a patient who could only speak tan . Patient could not produce any other words but understood language. Autopsy of the brain revealed a brain lesion to broca"s area in the left frontal lobe: karl wernicke:
