This article discusses neuropsychology within the Spanish-speaking world; it reviews its recent history, existing efforts, and future directions. It also addresses the practice of neuropsychology with Hispanics in the United States and posits that it should take into account the heterogeneity of this population (the largest minority group in the country). Hispanic heterogeneity includes, among ...

Neuropsychology is “the branch of science that studies the physiological processes of the nervous system and relates them to behavior and cognition, in terms both of their normal function and of the dysfunctional processes associated with brain damage” (VandenBos, 2015). The applied practice of neuropsychology is known as clinical neuropsychology, and is primarily focused on assessment and inte...

From 22–24 September 2010 the Second Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology was held at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The aim of the conference was to provide a meeting place for neuropsychologists, clinicians as well as researchers, from all over Europe. About 450 participants from 17 European countries gathered to present their researc...

Styrmir Saevarsson*, Simone Eger and Maria Gutierrez-Herrera 1 Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group (EKN), Department of Neuropsychology, Bogenhausen Academical Hospital, Munich, Germany 2 Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 3 Department Biology II Neurobiology, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany *Correspon...

Characteristics Visual neuropsychology is the sub-discipline of neuropsychology dedicated to understanding how visual information is processed by cerebro-cortical and subcortical mechanisms and how that information gives rise to perceptions and other behaviors. The discipline has grown in conjunction with knowledge of the anatomical connections and tuning properties of visual cortical neurons i...

Parts of the left ventral visual pathway are engaged selectively during the perception of words, letterstrings, and even single letters. While studies have shown overlap between activations for letters and characters across writing systems, they adopted group analyses with very limited spatial resolution, or used words and letterstrings, which have been shown to activate different regions from ...

Abstract It is recognised that there a notable presence of psychology and dementia-related issues in South Asian (SA) countries, this problem on the rise. Nevertheless, problems found field neuropsychology are yet to be fully resolved region. Unlike case developed neuropsychology, despite scopes genuine potential, not broadly practised Asia (which constitutes 25% world population), opportunity ...

The introduction of neuropsychologists in legal practice allowed for the field forensic neuropsychology to arise. However, it is still a recent knowledge that continuous development. existing literature highlights incipience studies this area and need adaptation instruments methods. Thus, scoping review aims analyze how neuropsychological assessment has been employed so far context. In order do...