This article emphasizes the importance of both scientific and phenomenological approaches to the practice of clinical neuropsychology. Paying attention to patients experiences while they receive neuropsychological services is stressed because this aspect is often neglected in the training of clinical neuropsychologists. Finally, the reality of "hostile" forces within the politics of neuropsycho...

background: exposure to organic solvents is common among workers. objective: to assess neurobehavioral effects of long-term exposure to organic solvents among rubber workers in tehran, iran. methods: across-sectional study was conducted on 223 employees of a rubber industry. the participants completed a data collection sheet on their occupational and medical history, and demographic characteris...

We distinguish between strong and weak cognitive neuropsychology, with the former attempting to provide direct insights into the nature of information processing and the latter having the more modest goal of providing constraints on such theories. We argue that strong cognitive neuropsychology, although possible, is unlikely to succeed and that researchers will fare better by combining behavior...

different early stage dementias. Being a clearly insufficient function in frontal patients and possibly accounting for their early symptoms of social inappropriateness, prior evidence of medial prefrontal structures subserving Theory of Mind is supported. In patients with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment, it is possible that Theory of Mind deficits are secondary to their primar...

Cognitive neuropsychology began in the second half of the nineteenth century when neurologists such as Lichtheim, Wernicke, Bastian, and others began to make inferences about the cognitive architecture of the intact language-processing system from studying the different ways in which spoken or written language abilities broke down after brain damage. They even began to express their proposals a...