PSYC33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occupational Safety And Health, Prosopagnosia, Explicit Memory
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Neurological asvertaining the functional anatomical integrity of the cns thru systematic ax. Neuropsychological assessment would be combined with the neurological, usually have seen the neurologist and have a report, be able to see a lesion to know how to. Radiological structural vs functional (what info would be helpful between the two, being able to take a picture of the brain what would be helpful about it would be able to see the lesions in the brain. After the 1970s we had the capabilities to save the objectivities of the lesions. Neuropsychological assessment intensive study of behaviour thru interviews, standardized tests and questionnaires, provide relatively sensitive indices of behaviour that are used to infer cognitive/brain function. Neuropsych 1. 0 early on clinicians interpreted brain damage as a unitary phenomenon. Distinguishing between functional and organic etiologies: functional is dynamic performance, organic is verifable, ex: bashed in the head neuropsych will be able to see psychiatric vs organic etiology.
