PSY2071 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Visual Impairment, Grey Matter, Cohort Study
5 Jun 2018
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PSY2071 – Lecture – Week 9
• examples of neurological disorders
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o neurodevelopmental disorder e.g. intelligence, learning, motor
skills, language, behaviour, emotion
o epilepsy
o stroke
o traumatic brain injury
o brain tumour
o brain malformation
o genetic disorder
• congenital and acquired disorders
• methods of child neuropsychology
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o neuropsychological tests
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▪ intelligence
▪ learning
▪ memory
▪ language
▪ attention
▪ planning
▪ organisation
o observation
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▪ compliance
▪ motivation
▪ concentration
▪ understanding instructions
▪ interaction
▪ frustration tolerance
o medical history
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▪ questionnaires
▪ behaviour
▪ emotions
▪ communications
• a neuropsychological assessment
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o medical history with parents
o getting to know the child
o neuropsychological testing with concurrent observation of
behaviour
o parents fill out questionnaires
o scoring of tests and questionnaires
o interrelation of the results, discussion with other professionals or
team
o feedback to parents, recommendations
o follow up assessments
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• pre term birth
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o causes
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▪ age of mother
▪ use of drugs
▪ smoking
▪ high blood pressure
▪ diabetes
o immature organs
o birth complications
o different environment
• prematurity and the brain
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o consequences for
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▪ cognition
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▪ cognitive difficulties
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▪ memory
▪ reading
▪ maths
▪ executive function
▪ processing speed
▪ attention
▪ language
▪ visual and perceptual
▪ behaviour
▪ brain function
▪ brain structure
• language in very preterm children
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o language difficulties in different aspects of language
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▪ vocabulary
▪ semantics
▪ grammar
▪ phonological processing
o consequences for communication, social function, mental health,
academic achievement, career prospects
o very preterm children need language therapy more often than
term born children
• preterm brain
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o vulnerability of the preterm brain
o white matter
o grey matter
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