Personality/emotional eval in neuropsych assessment Flashcards
Most of the time, patient’s emotional/ personality functioning following brain injury is product of…
extremely complex interactions involving:
- Neurological disabilities
- Present social demands
- Premorbid behaviors/ personality
- Ongoing reaction to all of these
When patterns of change in emotional and social behaviors are consistent with injury to specific brain areas, they are…
as important, and sometimes more, than patterns of test scores in identify brain dysfunction:
- Disinhibition, impulsiveness, poor initiation after frontal lobe damage
- Lack of awareness, denial of deficits after right hemisphere damage
Some types of behavioral impairments resulting from brain injury will not be detected on…
structured cognitive tests, but will show up in personal adjustment, social interactions, relationships, etc.
-Especially impaired self-regulation caused by frontal lobe injury that affects social judgment!
Even when emotional and behavioral functioning is not a direct consequence of brain injury…
determination of the patient’s emotional and personality functioning is essential for interpreting neuropsych results because these factors can have a significant influence on test performance.
