PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Psy, Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology
29 Jul 2020
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In addition to the interest in locating injuries, another basic goal was to perform a neuropsychology of syndromes; that is, group under the same label all those patientswho show similar symptoms. With a more classical and more precise terminology, a syndrome could be defined as the"statistically reliable coocurrence of symptoms characteristic of a particular condition" 1 (whitaker, 1984; p. 1) thissyndrome concept seemed logical for a discipline that was beingborn, in order to try to give an order to the large number and variety of behavioral manifestations offered by clinical practice. The inclusion of different patients in a group or clinical entity depending on their manifest symptomatology, proved to be a much more arduous and difficult task to carry out than had been assumed. Case studies began to be given that were diagnosed within a given entity but with very varied symptoms from the other subjects in the same group.
