PSY2071 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neuropsychological Assessment, Neurodevelopmental Disorder, Grey Matter
5 Aug 2018
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Interpretation of the results + discussion with other professionals. Major brain development during the 24-40 weeks of pregnancy. Require language therapy more often than term-born children. Impairment more than 2 sd lower than mean. Measures changes which are associated with blood flow to different parts of the brain. Blood flow in the brain and neuronal activation are coupled. Born <32 weeks of pregnancy or birth weight. Frontal lobe, parietal lobe(a bit), temporal lope (a tiny dot) Used similar parts of brain for language processing as term-born. Older children had more left-sided activations (typical for language) Language lateralization might be delayed in very preterm children. Very preterm children have difficulties in verbal and visual working memory. "smiley face" = got typical working memory activation. Very preterm children showed less distributed working memory network. Similar brain activations for high performers in very preterm children compared to term-born. Due to pruning of superfluous neurons and synapses.
