neuropsychology
Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Professionals in this branch of psychology focus on how injuries or illnesses of the brain affect cognitive and behavioral functions.
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Neuropsychology is the study of how the brain and nervous system affect the way people think, feel, and behave. It's important because neuropsychologists help understand and treat how brain injuries or illnesses impact a person's memory, attention, emotions, and other mental abilities.
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23 sectionsContents
- History
- Ancient Egypt
- Aristotle<!-- Empty Section tag removed because I have added credible and cited information to this section -->
- Hippocrates
- René Descartes
- Thomas Willis <!-- Removed the tag requiring citations as I have rectified this issue. -->
- Franz Joseph Gall
- Marie Jean Pierre Flourens
- Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
- Paul Broca
- Carl Wernicke
- Korbinian Brodmann
- Karl Spencer Lashley
- Approaches
- Methods and tools
- Standardized neuropsychological tests
- Brain scans
- Global Brain Project
- Electrophysiology
- Experimental tasks
- See also
- References
- External links
Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Professionals in this branch of psychology focus on how injuries or illnesses of the brain affect cognitive and behavioral functions.
It is both an experimental and clinical field of patient-focused psychology. Thus aiming to understand how behavior and cognition are influenced by brain function. It is also concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral and cognitive effects of neurological disorders. Whereas classical neurology focuses on the pathology of the nervous system and classical psychology is largely divorced from it, neuropsychology seeks to discover how the brain correlates with the mind through the study of neurological patients. It thus shares concepts and concerns with neuropsychiatry and with behavioral neurology in general. The term neuropsychology has been applied to lesion studies in humans and animals. It has also been applied in efforts to record electrical activity from individual cells (or groups of cells) in higher primates (including some studies of human patients).