Fundamentals of Neuropsychology, Neurodiagnostics and Correction

Description

What is a Neuropsychological Diagnosis?
Neuropsychological diagnostics is a compulsory examination of mental processes with the help of special tests for determining the state of higher mental functions, revealing violations of their connection with pathology, individual features or the functional state of certain parts of the brain.

Diagnostic tests are used to determine in which particular brain blocks (energy, information processing and storage or programming, regulation and control) there are disorders (defects, peculiarities).

A wide range of neuropsychological examination techniques is used to establish where the brain structures are affected or underdeveloped.

Module 1
The subject of Neuropsychology. Structure of the human brain. Levels of cerebral organization of motor and higher mental functions. Types of gnosis and praxis. Neuropsychological diagnosis – what it is. Clinical interview and observation in neuropsychological examination.

Module 2.
VPF, the concept of types. Brain organization of cognitive functions: gnostic, praxical, symbolic. Neuropsychology of development. Objective neuropsychological techniques of research of mental functions: voluntary movement and action, Acoustic non-verbal perception.

Module 3.
Neuropsychological disorders of the VPF. Specifics of disorders, agnosias and their types, apraxias and their types. Disorders of thinking, memory, attention, will, emotions. Objective neuropsychological techniques of research of mental functions: visual perception, tactile perception, time perception, memory, attention, speech, thinking.

Module 4.
Neuropsychological disorders in children. Types of developmental disorders. Developmental disorders as part of genetic syndromes. RAS, congenital developmental disorders. Neuropsychological syndromes in children. Neuropsychological disorders in adults. Objective neuropsychological techniques of research of lateral aspects of the functional organization of the brain: interhemispheric asymmetries of the brain, interhemispheric interaction.

Module 5.
Neuropsychological approach to examination of writing and reading of younger schoolchildren. Studying the writing of first graders at the beginning of schooling. Study and assessment of the writing skills of students in grades 1-4. Methods of examination of reading aloud and silently in younger students.

Module 6
Development and implementation of neuropsychological correction programs. Principles of organizing correction programs, the substitutive ontogenesis method, and occupational therapy. Motor correction programs, VPF correction.

Who is suitable for.
Psychologists, educators.

This program is a long-term training project for professional psychologists and teachers in the course of which students will develop skills in conducting neuropsychological diagnostics, analyzing the data of diagnostic research and drawing up an individual program of psychological correction based on the research data.