Psychology 2080A/B Study Guide - Clinical Neuropsychology, Neuropsychological Assessment, Carl Wernicke

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

This field is a scientific discipline that focuses on psychological impairments of the central nervous system and their remediation. Clinical neuropsychology is defined as the scientific discipline that studies the relationship between behaviour and brain functioning un the realms of cognitive, motor, sensory, and emotional functioning. Neuropsychologists identify, describe and treat diseases of the brain and spinal cord. Differs from other specializations because it is very specific- focusing on attention, memory, learning, language and communication, spatial integration, and cognitive flexibility. It attempts to relate brain dysfunction and damage to observable and measurable behavioural functioning. There has been huge advancement in neural imaging. People vary with behaviour and function with every lesion. Neurologists no believe that performance on neuropsychological tests gives them clues about which part of the brain to examine. Mri- allows us to see changes in blood flow to different regions of the brain.