cognitive neuropsychology

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what is cognitive neuropsychology

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study of cognitive impairments following a Brain injury

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Aristotle

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source of cognition of thoughts and feelings = heart

brain was a cooling system

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plato

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tripartite soul- divided into three parts . rational/logical part part was in the brain as its closer to heaven

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descartes

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mind body interaction problem-The mind is about mental processes, thought and consciousness. The body is about the physical aspects of the brain-neurons and how the brain is structured

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associations

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clusters of abilities or tasks that patients can’t do

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dissociations

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a patient who is impaired at one task but normal at another

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double dissociation

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2 or more patients with opposing deficits

conclude that 2 functions involve separable processes

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case study

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looking at the abilities of single patients with brain injury

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assumptions

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fractionation, transparency and universality

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fractionation

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damaging part of the brain affects specific modules within a process

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transparency

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damaging part of the brain subtracts from a process

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universality

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all Brains are similar

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cognitive assessment

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range of tests designed to assess normal cognitive processing eg memory , language, learning

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phineas gage

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frontal lobes are involved in personality , inhibition and planning

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hm

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dissociation between different types of memories

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Clive wearing

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hippocampus is important for forming memories

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hja

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impaired at recognising range of objects, intact ability to copy pictures

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spatial neglect

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fail to notice things on one side of space

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spatial neglect as a result of damage/ injury to

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parietal lobe and temporoparietal junction - usually right hemisphere

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assessment of spatial neglect

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drawing and copying task, bisection and cancellation tasks

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after occipital lobe damage sometimes have

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cortical blindness - dissociation

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people can pay attention if they are

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cued to the neglected side

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patients with visual field loss are aware

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of their condition - may turn their head to get the full field of view

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aphasia

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inability to comprehend or produce speech

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brocas area

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producing speech

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wernickes area

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understanding speech

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brocas aphasia

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can understand speech but difficulty producing speech

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wernickes aphasia

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can produce speech but have trouble understanding speech

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cookie theft task for wernickes aphasia

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describes picture with lots of worlds but doesn’t make sense

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cookie theft task for brocas aphasia

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use very few words and describes very little of the picture