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What are the applications of Neuropsychology? |
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Clinical Neuropsychology is an application
of Neuropsychology and a sub-specialty area within clinical psychology
involving the evaluation and treatment of individuals with neurological
and/or psychiatric problems. Individuals characterized by such problems
include patients with cognitive, behavioral, and/or emotional problems
as a consequence of: Dementia (of which Alzheimer's Disease is a type),
Epilepsy, Head Trauma, Multiple Sclerosis, Anoxia (loss of oxygen
to the brain), Stroke (also referred to as Cerebrovascular Accidents
or CVA's), Parkinson's Disease, abnormal development of the brain,
drug/alcohol abuse, or other neurological diseases/disruption like
ADHD or Learning Disabilities. Clinical neuropsychology encompasses
the fields of clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, neurology,
and psychometric testing. |
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Primary Focus |
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Assessment of cognitive impairments following
brain injury, disease, abnormal development of the brain, or psychiatric
difficulties. |
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Secondary Focus |
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Treatment of patients with cognitive and
emotional problems following brain injury, disease, abnormal development
of the brain or psychiatric difficulties. This focus has become more
prominent in recent years. |
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Neuropsychology at Pennsylvania
State University |
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Neuropsychology at PSU focuses on clinical
training of graduate students in clinical neuropsychology and clinical
neuroscience and multiple internally and externally grant funded research
endeavors headed by Drs. Peter Arnett and Frank G. Hillary. The Training
Program and an Overview of Research at PSU are outlined below: |
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Training Program |
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Specialization in Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience (SCAN program)
The specialization in cognitive and affective neuroscience (SCAN)
is a department-wide effort to integrate the study of brain and behavior
by infusing neuroscience throughout the traditional areas of psychology.
This approach recognizes the rapidly growing connections between psychology
and neuroscience. Students will be admitted to one of the traditional
substantive areas of the Psychology Department - clinical (child or
adult), cognitive, developmental, industrial-organizational, or social
psychology - and augment their work in that area with coursework and
research training in molecular, cellular, or systems-level neuroscience.
(for a detailed description of SCAN click on www.psych.psu/SCAN.edu
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