PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Neuropsychological Assessment, Neurological Examination, Electrodermal Activity
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In neurology, neuropsychological findings are interpreted within the clinical context of the patient"s presentation and in the context of pertinent historical, psychosocial, and diagnostic information. Laboratory techniques for assessing brain function: some of the earliest instruments for studying brain function that remain in use are electrophysiological. It was recognized that behavioural disorders resulted from different brain conditions, and that damage to different brain sites caused different effects. It was established that certain specific brain-behaviour correlates appeared with predictable regularity: much of the work with brain damaged patients continued to be based on the assumption that. Alexander luria; who"s use of symptoms made evident by neuropsychological assessment to infer. Localizationists -- aware of specialized brain areas and the one-diagnosis-fits-all. Intelligence tests is highly correlated with school achievement: however, composite iq scores represent many different kinds of conflated and confounded functions as to be conceptually meaningless.
