ANAT241 Lecture : ANAT241 L16
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Clinical psychology: a division of psychology that specializes in the clinical assessment and treatment of patients with brain injury or neurocognitive defects. It"s considered applied because it deals with assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of those individuals with brain illness or injury as opposed to looking at only brain structures and functions. Other areas within neuropsychology: experimental neuropsychology: focuses on brain-behaviour relationships usually using animals as subjects, describes structures and functions, as opposed to focusing on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. The term neuropsychology; was first used in 1913. During the first time period, it was a combination of psychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, speech pathologists, and even more. It eventually became to mean the study of the relationship between the brain and behaviour". Ancient hypotheses to modern theories of brain functioning. Surgical trephination involved removal of a bony portion of the cranial vault. Symbolic trephination involved only the external cortical layer.