ENG 4339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Neuropsychological Assessment, Agnosia, Depth Perception
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Two mindmaps a lecture; one for the tests and one for the patients. Clinical neuropsychology is defined as a specialty that applies the principles of assessment and intervention based upon the scientific study of human behavior as it relates to normal and abnormal functioning of the cns. You see patients who had a stroke, have dementia, were in a car accident, but also children with epilepsy or adhd. Not all the problems in the brain, such as the malfunctioning of the neural networks show up on scans. Age, sex, physical condition, status of the patient and the psychosocial background have an impact on the brain. The actual atanomy, the actual picture of the brain differs slightly across individuals, even among young, healhty people. Differences in sizes, grey matter, white matter, shape. If you compare a healthy, young brain and a healthy, old brain, you will see even more differences.
