PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Procedural Memory, Neocortex, Acalculia
14 Oct 2016
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Neurological exam: neurologist is interested in ascertaining the functional and anatomical integrity of the central nervous. The strength, efficiency, reactivity, and appropriateness of the patient"s responses to commands, questions, discrete simulation, and challenges to muscle groups and motor patterns. Limited in the ability to say much about causation about behavioral or cognitive impairments. Methods of investigating the brain are rather limited in scope. E. g. , cranial nerves, strength and tome of muscle groups. Screen for neurological impairment but do not diagnose neurocognitive impairment. Looking for patterns indicative of neuropathology that are used for diagnostic purposes, to guide medical intervention and/or monitor the status of a known condition. Only extreme poles considered on continuum, middle is grey area. Neuropsychological assessment: means of measuring in a quantitative, standardized fashion the most complex aspects of human behavior. Findings are interpreted within the clinical context of the patient"s presentation and in the context of pertinent historical, psychosocial, and diagnostic information.
