PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Schizophrenia, Nosology, Neurosurgery
29 Jul 2020
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Lto neuropsicology applied to different fields of care. Today, it is now more common for the approach of many different problems to be made from a multidisciplinary perspective, and of course neuropsychology is a clear example of discipline. The go neuropsych collaborates with the different professionals offering a series of contributions and receiving from them information that it uses in its clinical intervention. The professionals with which the neuropsychologist mainly works are: The neuropsylogo collaborates with the neurologist in performing a differential diagnosis between neurological and psychiatric diseases (example: dementia and depression). It collaborates thus pampering, specifying the diagnosis and offering neuropsychologicalprofiles characteristicof the different neurological pathologies. Provides information on the likely anatomofunctional relationship responsible for cognitive impairments and functions. It defines the efficacy and cognitive effects of drug treatment and is responsible for designing and carrying out neuropsychological rehabilitation programs appropriate to the needs of each patient.
