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Cognitive neuropsychology is a branch of cognitive psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes. Cognitive psychology is the science that looks at how the brain's mental processes are responsible for our cognitive abilities to store and produce new memories, produce language, recognize people and objects, as well as our ability to reason and problem solve. Cognitive neuropsychology places a particular emphasis on studying the cognitive effects of brain injury or neurological illness with a view to inferring models of normal cognitive functioning. Evidence is based on case studies of individual brain damaged patients who show deficits in brain areas and from patients who exhibit double dissociations. Double dissociations involve two patients and two tasks. One patient is impaired at one task but normal on the other, while the other patient is normal on the first task and impaired on the other. For example, patient A would be poor at reading printed words while still being normal at understanding spoken words, while the patient B would be normal at understanding written words and be poor at understanding spoken words. Scientists can interpret this information to explain how there is a single cognitive module for word comprehension. From studies like these, researchers infer that different areas of the brain are highly specialised. Cognitive neuropsychology can be distinguished from cognitive neuroscience, which is also interested in brain damaged patients, but is particularly focused on uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive processes.
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This video was made to help people learn about clinical neuropsychology. Disclaimer: Clinical neuropsychology is a collaborative profession. Neuropsychologists can help assess an individual's strength's and weaknesses, make diagnoses, track cognitive changes over time, provide therapy and neurorehabilitation, and make treatment, intervention, and personal plans and recommendations. Although all of these services are designed to help patients and clients, they are not a cure-all and it is recommended that individuals with neurological, psychological and psychiatric concerns seek the care and services of their entire medical team. The Victoria Association for the Advocacy of Clinical Neuropsychology is a fictional organization created for the purposes of this class assignment (PSYC 583, E...
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Neuropsychology is a broad and exciting field of science which seeks to describe and explain the complex relationship between brain function and human behaviour. This talk will explore our current understanding of some common neuropsychological disorders, and the types of research-informed interventions being used in clinical practice. About Dr Rogers Dr Je Rogers has recently joined the Australian Catholic University as a lecturer in the School of Psychology. Dr Rogers has worked clinically across a variety of settings in Western Australia and New South Wales, including child and adult brain injury rehabilitation, and adult and older adult mental health care. Dr Rogers' teaching and research interests reflect the diversity of these experiences, and include investigations of outcome afte...
Mauricio Rangel-Gomez is a graduate of the Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. The master’s is situated in the broad field of neuroscience, which aims to increase understanding of the Mind-Brain-Behaviour triad.
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Paul Broks trained as a clinical psychologist at Oxford University and went on to specialize in neuropsychology. He has pursued a career combining both clinical practice and basic research. What book has influenced you most? Explain how. I read René Descartes' A Discourse on Method and Meditations in my student days. The experience has never left me. It was the Penguin Classics edition with Frans Hals's portrait of the great 17th-century philosopher staring out from the front cover. Reading the Meditations felt like dissolving into those heavy-lidded eyes and into his thought processes. Descartes' erroneous but fatally beguiling division of mind and matter has become ingrained in our way of thinking, and the apparent irreconcilability of subjective and objective points of view remains ...
http://www.bcbl.eu/2014/12/master-in-cognitive-neuroscience-of-language-2/ Cognitive Neuroscience arises from coordinating efforts in such different areas as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, neuropsychology, and computer science with technological advances in the fields of neuroimaging and computing. This interdisciplinary venture aims to discover the brain mechanisms that underlie psychological processes such as language. The Master’s program is aimed at university graduates who are interested in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. These include individuals with backgrounds in areas such as psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, as well as candidates with relevant training in related fields such as cognitive science, mathematics, computer science, and machine lea...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/sabk/35/en/B01DCDFJSE/book Cognitive neuropsychology has now established a major place in the teaching of undergraduate psychology degrees and is an important topic of postgraduate research. The subject is also of increasing interest to clinicians because of its links with devising remediation procedures for people with brain injury. Explorations in Cognitive Neuropsychology is the first major text to appear on this topic since the late 1980s and thus introduces the reader to a vast amount of research previously unavailable in textbook format. The book is written in a lively and engaging style which nonetheless enables the reader to get a scholarly, in-depth overview of this important field. The coverage of topics is very broad-ranging. I...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/sabk/35/en/B001ELJSTS/book Comprehensively examining the effects of psychological trauma on the brain, this volume integrates neurobiological, clinical, and cognitive aspects of Ptsd. Presented is groundbreaking research on the emergence of neuropsychological dysfunctions in specific trauma populations: children, adults, older adults, and victims of closed head injury. Coverage encompasses a range of chronic problems with memory, attention, and information processing that are related to trauma exposure. Linking neuropsychological findings to the realities of clinical practice, the concluding section addresses key implications for Ptsd assessment and for pharmacological and psychological treatment.
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/sabk/35/en/B00HFPV4AI/book The Roots of Cognitive Neuroscience takes a close look at what we can learn about our minds from how brain damage impairs our cognitive and emotional systems. This approach has a long and rich tradition dating back to the 19th century. With the rise of new technologies, such as functional neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation, interest in mind-brain connections among scientists and the lay public has grown exponentially. Behavioral neurology and neuropsychology offer critical insights into the neuronal implementation of large-scale cognitive and affective systems. The book starts out by making a strong case for the role of single case studies as a way to generate new hypotheses and advance the field. T...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/sabk/35/en/B00KQODYDK/book How independent are different cognitive skills during development? Is the modularity seen in the studies of adult neuropsychology disorders mirrored by modularity in development? Are developmental neuropsychological disorders explicable against cognitive models? What restrictions are there to developmental plasticity? How many routes are there to competence? Is there a single developmental pathway? What do disorders of cognitive development tell us about normal developmental processes? These are some of the questions addressed by this text.in certain cognitive domains, such as the analysis of reading and spelling disorders, the field is well developed, with extensive studies of the development of dyslexias and d...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/mabk/30/en/B00BY5GIZG/book Psychology and many of its subfields have seen a significant shift over the past 10-12 years toward a focus on hope, positive attributes, and character strengths through the positive psychology movement. This book provides a blueprint for a burgeoning subfield in neuropsychologypositive neuropsychology. It proposes an alternative, evidence-based perspective on neuropsychology that incorporates positive psychology principles and a focus on promotion of cognitive health. It synthesizes existing research and provides novel perspectives on promotion of cognitive health in clinical, nonclinical, and academic settings. This work is a resource and reference for neuropsychologists, allied professionals, and students who...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/mabk/30/en/B00EPE1XAS/book Cognitive neuropsychology seeks to understand impairments of specific cognitive functions in relation to a model of normal cognitive processing. The conclusions drawn from the study of abnormal processes are in turn used in the development and testing of theories of normal cognition. First published in 1988, this seminal book represented an attempt to synthesize and systematize progress in the study of cognitive neuropsychology and therefore provides an important snapshot of the field at the time. In addition to reviewing different forms of impairment and discussing their implications for theories of normal function, this book also examines the empirical and theoretical foundations of the subject including the u...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/mabk/30/en/B00CDV0TBO/book The significance of art in human existence has long been a source of puzzlement, fascination, and mystery. In Neuropsychology of Art, Dahlia W. Zaidel explores the brain regions and neuronal systems that support artistic creativity, talent, and appreciation.both the visual and musical arts are discussed against a neurological background. Evidence from the latest relevant brain research is presented and critically examined in an attempt to clarify the brain-art relationship, language processing and visuo-spatial perception. The consequences of perceptual problems in famous artists, along with data from autistic savants and established artists with brain damage as a result of unilateral stroke, dementia, or other ...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/mabk/30/en/B01DM26VFU/book As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive difficulties arising from neurological damage and disease. He distinguishes two types of theories of normal function primarily modular and primary non-modular and argues that the problems of making valid inferences about normal function from studies of brain-damaged subjects are more severe for the latter. He first analyzes five well-researched areas in which some modularity can be assumed: short-term memory, reading, writing, visual perception, and the relation between input and output language processing. His aim is to introduce ...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://zaxo.space/mabk/30/en/B008BB7MU6/book This handbook celebrates the abundantly productive interaction of neuropsychology and medicine. This interaction can be found in both clinical settings and research loratories, often between research teams and clinical practitioners. It accounts for the rapidity with which awareness and understanding of the neuropsychological comnents of many common medical disorders have recently advanced. The introduction of neuropsychology into practice and research involving conditions without obvious neurological components follows older and eminently successful models of integrated care and treatment of the classical brain disorders. In the last 50 years, with the growing understanding of neurological disorders, neuropsych...
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B00CDV0TBO/book The significance of art in human existence has long been a source of puzzlement, fascination, and mystery. In Neuropsychology of Art, Dahlia W. Zaidel explores the brain regions and neuronal systems that support artistic creativity, talent, and appreciation.both the visual and musical arts are discussed against a neurological background. Evidence from the latest relevant brain research is presented and critically examined in an attempt to clarify the brain-art relationship, language processing and visuo-spatial perception. The consequences of perceptual problems in famous artists, along with data from autistic savants and established artists with brain damage as a result of unilateral stroke, dementia, or other neurologi...
Talk on Computational and Cognitive Neuropsychology of Parkinson’s Disease by Prof. Ahmed Moustafa of University of Western Sydney, Australia on Jan 21, 2015 at Computational Neuroscience Lab, Amrita School of Biotechnololgy, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), Kerala, India.
Google Tech Talks February, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Mindfulness meditation, one type of meditation technique, has been shown to enhance emotional awareness and psychological flexibility as well as induce well-being and emotional balance. Scientists have also begun to examine how meditation may influence brain functions. This talk will examine the effect of mindfulness meditation practice on the brain systems in which psychological functions such as attention, emotional reactivity, emotion regulation, and self-view are instantiated. We will also discuss how different forms of meditation practices are being studied using neuroscientific technologies and are being integrated into clinical practice to address symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Speaker: Philippe Goldin Philippe is a resea...
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Neuropsychological Deficits: BPD is associated with a range of cognitive deficits, with no two individuals necessarily showing the same types of difficulties. The most frequently affected neuropsychological domains include memory, response inhibition and planning. These deficits are subserved by many of the same brain regions that are responsible for regulating emotions. Implications for Treatment: Worse executive function and visual memory may be associated with a greater likelihood of dropout from treatment (Fertuck et al., 2012). Individualized neuropsychological assessments may assist substantially with treatment planning, which could avoid obstacles patients may later encounter in effectively engaging with treatments.
The Dementia Webcast Series assists health care providers who treat patients with dementia to stay abreast of current research on the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment presented at the Dementia 2012 conference. In this webcast, Dr. Sarah Banks reviews the rationale of a neuropsychological evaluation during the work-up of potential Alzheimer's disease and the cognitive profile of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The video was produced by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education and the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. To participate in other online education, visit http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/
Cognitive Psychology for Hackers Bugs, exploits, and occasional patches Experience firsthand some of the most interesting, surprising, and perspective-changing findings from cognitive and social neuropsychology. With perceptual illusions, priming, biases, heuristics, and unconscious influences, humans have tons of firmware "bugs". All have exploits; some even have patches. Learn how to improve your own thinking, use others' bugs to your advantage, and gain new perspective on the unconscious and often illusory processes involved in your perceptions. This interactive talk goes through as many interesting, surprising, perspective-changing findings from the cognitive sciences as I can fit in one hour while ensuring that as much as possible has a real, live demonstration that the au...