In recent decades, interest in children’s learning and developmental problems has increased, thus the neuropsychology of the child’s development, a discipline that addresses the relationship between the maturation process of the central nervous system and behavior during childhood (1). This discipline of neuropsychology focuses on the evaluation of neurodevelopment in the prevention and early detection […]
Have you ever wondered what a neuropsychologist can do in court?Neuropsychology is known to take into account the relationship between the brain and cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning, all of which help to better understand many of the disorders and difficulties of daily life. Within the discipline there are divisions related to the type of
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Persistent depressive disorder does not always respond to pharmacological treatment, chronic apathy, despair and mood swings have a much more complex origin than is often imagined, in this way the neuropsychology of dysthymia reminds us that this condition is linked to a series of brain processes and social situations that we must take into account.
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We’re all getting old. Like it or not, we know that our cells age over time and that our physical appearance and cognition change over time. One of the areas involved in the study of these changes at the neural level is the neuropsychology of aging. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), from a
