PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Procedural Memory, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Neuroanatomy
29 Jul 2020
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The neuropsychology is a specialty belonging to the field of neuroscience, which studies the relationship between mental and behavioral processes and brain. It constitutes a meeting point between psychology and neurology in recent years, it has received a renewed boost from the. The term "cognitive functions" refers to mental or intellectual processes such as the ability to pay attention, remember, produce and understand language, solve problems and make decisions. Neuropsychology: executive functions (spanning a range of abilities such as cognitive flexibility, planning, monitoring, problem solving, etc. , spatial and temporal orientation, the organization of the motor act, academic skills (reading, writing, calculation) All these pathologies can present with neuropsychological alterations, presenting relatively characteristic cognitive profiles. Its detection is of utmost importance to face an adequate treatment: another group of consultants is made up of older subjects, concerned about their memory problems.
