Neuropsychology

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Foundations of Neuropsychology
2. Neurophysiology
3. Neuroanatomy
4. Laterality and Callosal Syndromes
5. Cognition, Personality and Emotion
6. Perception Disorders
7. Motor Disorders
8. Language
9. Dementia
10. Neurodevelopment

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

• Describe the relevance of neuropsychology to managing psychological disorders.
• Explain the physiology of the nervous system.
• Describe the anatomy of the nervous system.
• Describe how conditions within the brain affect the way in which a person is physically capable or incapable of performing a variety of different tasks.
• Explain how various aspects of a person’s thought processes may vary according to that person’s neurobiology.
• Describe a variety of perceptual disorders.
• Explain a variety of motor disorders.
• Explain the neuropsychology of language.
• Differentiate between different dementias.
• Explain aspects of development in neuropsychological terms.

• Learn about the development of Neuropsychology and techniques used in human neuropsychological studies.
• Describe the Neuroanatomy of the: brainstem, cerebellum and cerebral cortex, organisation of the cerebral cortex, cranial nerves, brain covering, ventricular system, arteries, brain malfunction, visual system and other systems;
• Determine why there is laterality;
• Discuss callosal syndrome;
• Discuss and compare theories of frontal lobe function;
• Contrast normal aspects and abnormal aspects of emotion from a neuropsychological perspective;
• Develop a diagnostic table of perceptual disorders;
• Determine how the brain perceives faces;
• Discuss language formation;
• Describe language disorders;
• Develop a table of kind of dementia;
• Learn how recovery of function is affected across age spans.