Clinical neuropsychology
The Clinical Neuropsychology is the science of experience and behavior , based on damage related conditions and changes in the central nervous system and resulting functional deficits, activity disturbances and limitations of participation in life.
The practical implementation of clinical neuropsychology consists in the diagnosis of deficits and limitations, and based on this, in the development and implementation of therapeutic methods. The therapy reduces the severity of the deficits or enables the person to better adapt to their living environment.
Neuropsychological diagnostics are often carried out using many different, standardized examination methods, which should at least be constructed according to the most important quality criteria for psychological test procedures of validity , reliability and objectivity .
On November 24, 2011 in Germany, the Federal Joint Committee of the National Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, the German Hospital Association and the Central Association of Health Insurance Funds decided that patients with acquired organic brain diseases - for example after a traumatic brain injury or a stroke - will in future receive outpatient neuropsychological therapy as a benefit from the statutory health insurance can claim.
Neuropsychological Syndromes
- Cerebral vision disorders ( rehabilitation of visual disorders )
- Disturbances in spatial performance
- Disturbances of attention and consciousness
- Neglect (extinct)
- Learning and memory disorders
- Frontal brain syndrome
- Organic brain psychosyndrome
- aphasia
- Apraxia
- Anosognosia , agnosia (object diagnosis)
- Conduction disorders / disconnection syndromes : These names describe a number of neuropsychological syndromes that are not based on functional disorders in cortical projection or association fields themselves, but can be traced back to the interruption of the connections between such centers. Apraxia, aphasia, agnosia and pure alexia can also be traced back to such disorders. In general, attempts are made to explain many neuropsychological syndromes by a conduction disorder.
- Dementia syndromes
- Pusher symptoms (postural heminglect, spatial perceptual basic disorder)
- Disorientation
- Dysexecutive syndrome - disorders of planning and problem solving (also frontal brain syndrome)
Neuropsychological tests (selection)
attention
- Test battery for attention testing / TAP
- Trail making test / TMT
- d2 test
- Vienna Test System : Determination Test / DT
- Neglect test / NET
- The Balloons Test
- Continuous Performance Task / CPT
- Test series to test the ability to concentrate / TPK
- Dortmund attention test / DAT
language
- Aachen aphasia test / AAT
memory
- Vienna Test System : Figural Memory Test / FGT
- Verbal learning and memory test / VLMT
- Changer Memory Scale / WMS-R
- Rivernmead Behavioral Memory Test / RBMT
- Corsi block span
- Learning and memory test / LGT-3
- Diagnosticum of cerebral damage / DCS
- Rey-Figure
- Benton test
Executive functions
- Wisconsin Card Sorting Test / WCST
- Vienna Test System : Plan-a-Day Test / PAD
- Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome / BADS
- Office test / BT
- Organizational task
- Planning test
- Towers of Hanoi / Tower of London
- Regensburg verbal fluency test / RWT
- Ruff Figural Fluency Test / RUFF
- 5-point test
perception
- Vienna Test System : Perception and Attention Functions: Alertness / WAFA
- Visual, Object and Space-Battery / VOSP
- Cambridge Low Contrast Gradings / CLCG
- Land test
- Simultaneous extinction
- Ishahara test
- Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue test
Vision construction
- Mosaic test from HAWIE-R
- Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test
- Watch sign test
Apraxia
- Düsseldorf apraxia test / DAXT
- Apraxia screening according to Poeck
Intellectual capacity
- Vienna Test System : Free Response Matrice / FRM
- Performance test system / LPS; LPS-K (short version); LPS-50 + (from 50 years); LPS-50 + -K
- Intelligence Structure Test / IST-2000 R
- Hamburg-Wechsler intelligence test for adults / children / HAWIE-R; HAWIK
- Vocabulary test / WST
- Number connection test / ZVT
Screenings
- Mini-Mental State Examination / MMSE
- Vienna Test System : Test Set Cognitive Basic Testing / COGBAT
- Syndrome short test / SKT
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory / MMPI
- Neuropsychological Impairment Scale / NIS
- Nuremberg Age Inventory / NAI
- TÜLÜC
- Test for the early detection of dementia with differentiation of depression / TFDD
See also
- Neuropsychology
- psychology
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Neuropsychological diagnostics
literature
- Gauggel, Konrad & Wietasch: Neuropsychological rehabilitation; Beltz (1998)
- Goldenberg, Pössl & Ziegler: Neuropsychology in everyday life; Thieme (2002)
- Hartje & Poeck (2000): Clinical Neuropsychology . Thieme
- Sturm, Hermann, Wallesch (2000): Textbook Clinical Neuropsychology . Swets.
- Prigatano (2004): Neuropsychological Rehabilitation - Basics and Practice . Jumper.
- Prosiegel (2002): Neuropsychological disorders and their rehabilitation. Plum.