Syndrome analysis
The term syndrome analysis goes back to the Russian neuropsychologist Alexander R. Lurija . It represents a method for understanding the causes and effects of neuropsychological syndromes .
Syndrome analysis is developed by Lurija as a methodological basis for his neuropsychological research. It begins with the systemic description of a comprehensive complex of symptoms in order to build on this, taking anatomical , physiological and biographical data into account , to arrive at an understanding of the functionality of the symptoms with regard to certain neurobiological , psychological or socio-cultural conditions under which the syndrome emerges or becomes conspicuous becomes.
Lurija contrasts the classic, deficient view of syndromes as failure, error or other pathological occurrences with a neuropsychological theory of complex functional systems, in which the lack of brain functions is not assumed as the cause of the occurrence of a certain symptom complex, but a changed form of their interaction as a result of local brain injuries.
This makes it possible to understand a syndrome not only as an expression of a deficiency, but also as the origin of excess, as the New York neuropsychologist Oliver Sacks shows in his impressive case histories.
literature
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