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What What is neuropsychology and when it can be useful to consult a psychologist expert in this subject?'s find out ...
Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology that has a specific connotation and its own reason for existing, recognized and appreciated.
neuropsychological rehabilitation practices are now widely used in rehabilitation centers, local health authorities, hospitals and nursing homes and the results are certainly valuable, in addition, following the university reform, that is in neuropsychology become a recognized degree, and there are also schools of psychotherapy involving neuropsychological address, but really knows ... AS THE COMMON PEOPLE of this discipline?
In my practice, I notice how often the client (usually a relative of the same, actually) come to me on medical advice, or simply because it is "practice," knowing nothing about what I am doing and its usefulness ... almost wondering if they are a sort of doctor or something.
To pleasure and without any scientific pretensions, so I thought of putting on different "forums" generic and open to everyone on the network, the following question: "Who knows what it is carrying out a neuropsychologist?" claiming to have name plate on the bed like a professional studio. The responses were varied: those who had never heard of such a professional, who argued that it was a neurologist who is also involved in psychology, who suggested to me, even to address Strip the News to denounce such a charlatan because the neuropsychologist does not exist!
Again unpretentious, but also convinced that the widest sea is composed of many small drops of water, I decided to do some 'clarity: what is responsible, ultimately, this neuropsychology? To answer, I use the words of Dr. Bussolon, which, in simple and clear way, describes the purpose of that discipline.
Neuropsychology aims to assess and, where possible, rehabilitate, cognitive deficits and implications attached to psychological, emotional and personality resulting from disorders of the central nervous system.
The level of higher cognitive functions (responsible for operations planning, coordination, flexibility, choice of an objective, self-regulation) is one of the most significant aspects that characterize the quality of life of an individual and his family, and deficits in pathological investing these functions should be regarded as one of the most serious and frequent disability affecting the citizens of Western societies.
Despite the therapeutic action can hardly meet the legitimate expectations of recovery of such patients, the diagnostic intervention and rehabilitation neuropsychology is extremely useful in containing the effects of the disease course, to limit the suffering that this causes to patients and their families, to rationalize the resources that institutions investing in treatment and support of stakeholders.
neuropsychological diagnosis
Thorough neuropsychological assessment is essential for a correct diagnosis on the alleged medical condition of higher cognitive functions. If accompanied by other diagnostic tools (evaluation psychopathological, neurological examination, medical history and use of bioimaging and remote - CT, MRI, EEG), neuropsychological evaluation can lead to an appropriate differential diagnosis of the health status of the user. This diagnosis is also crucial for an appropriate therapeutic intervention: Just think, for example, to pseudodementia due to severe depression is often not recognized because of their cognitive symptoms, in which case an effective antidepressant treatment, including medication status, may be omitted if the wrong diagnosis leant in for a crazy disease.
addition to the differential diagnosis, neuropsychological assessment is functional for a proper evaluation - qualitative and quantitative - of the functional level of the different cognitive components and provides an important key to understanding, even in perspective, the implications of personal, family, professional and social related to the onset and course of the disease. It is therefore possible on the one hand better prepare you and the family to tackle the problem and deal with its consequences, the other more effectively quantify the workload of the family and institutions will be burdened in providing appropriate assistance to ill.
Neuropsychological assessment is also preparatory to the drafting of a rehabilitation program, if it proves necessary, the periodic repetition of the test is then necessary to evaluate the course of the disease, if progressive in nature, and effectiveness of any intervention rehabilitation.
When it is useful to consult a neuropsychologist?
may be useful to consult a psychologist expert in neuropsychology, whenever you go before an impairment of higher cognitive functions, whether congenital or acquired.
The developmental neuropsychology, is called into question, for example, in a case of congenital neurological aspect (down, williams ...) brain lesions, and disorders of still unknown origin, such as noise learning difficulties (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia ...) and attention, difficulties in language, cognitive delay.
In adults, the areas of greatest concern the application of acquired brain injury as a result of traffic accidents, stroke, cancer, substance abuse or degenerative dementia.
Of note is the application of neuropsychology in the field of cognitive enhancement and prevention: specific cognitive stimulation programs can, in fact, improve performance at school and work, as well as slow down the normal deterioration of the performance cognitive, due to aging.
As previously reported, Dr. Bussolon, neuropsychology does not "cure" in the medical sense of the term, but allows the display of a landscape, clear as possible, any functional deficits and residual capacity of the subject, in order to make up as much as possible, at the beginning, relying on the latter. It also allows the most appropriate psychological support to those who are in similar circumstances and their families.
Bibliography:
Bussolon S. http://www.neuropsy.it/neuropsicologia.html
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