PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurodegeneration
29 Jul 2020
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Mainly, they work with babies in early care, with children and adolescents with learning difficulties, with adults with brain damage and with the elderly with dementia. Most often they treat patients with neurological problems as a consequence of brain damage or injury due to: trauma of the skull, a cerebrovascular accident, a neurodegenerative disease: alzheimer"s disease, parkinson"s disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy , brain tumors. The early detection of these problems is essential to establish an adequate treatment. They also frequently work with older people, who seek help because they are concerned about memory problems. Often times, these problems may simply be due to normal cognitive changes from aging. However, others may be due to the presence of mild cognitive impairment, or the initial phase of dementia. Today, we have preventive workshops, where different cognitive stimulation exercises are performed, especially for attention work, memory areas, and executive functions.
