Neuropsycological Assessment psychology

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1. Neuropsychological Assessment By: Tiffany Gail C. Clamucha

2. Definition of Terms

3. General Elements of a Neuropsychological Evaluation Objectives: Draw inferences about the structural and functional characteristics of a person’s brain. Evaluate an individual’s behavior in defined stimulus-response situations.

4. Factors to be considered:

5. Common to all thorough neuropsychological examinations are:

6. Tests administered should focus on the following domains:

7. General strategies in neuropsychological assessment

8. Neuropsychological Tests Tests of General Intellectual Ability Tests to measure the Ability to Abstract Tests of Executive Function Tests of Perceptual, Motor, and Perceptual Motor Function Tests of Verbal Functioning Tests of Memory

9. Tests of General Intellectual Ability Wechsler Tests

10. Tests to Measure the Ability to Abstract

11. Tests to Measure the Ability to Abstract Non-verbal Abstraction Ability Object Sorting Test Color-Form Sorting Test

12. Tests of Executive Function Tower of Hanoi

13. Bender-Gestalt Visual Motor Test Developed by a child psychiatrist named Lauretta Bender First published in 1983 Tests of Perceptual, Motor, and Perceptual-Motor Function

14. Bender-Gestalt Visual Motor Test

15. The Bender A recall phase was added “Now please draw all of the designs you can remember” Subjects diagnosed as neurotic would be able to recall fewer figures on the recall portion of the test than would normal subjects

16. Tests of Verbal Functioning Controlled Word Association Test The examiner says a letter of the alphabet and then it is the subject’s task to say as many words as he or she can think of that begin with that letter.

17. Tests of Memory

18. Challenges

19. Challenges

20. A Neuropsychological Evaluation Can:

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