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There exists a sector in which the function of the psychologist is so unknown as necessary, the neuropsychology. It is the area of the psychology that occupies of the relations brain - conduct, representing a genuine application of the biopsychosocial approach to the comprehension of the human mind.
 WHAT IS?
The neuropsychology is the area of the psychology that occupies of the relations brain - conduct, representing a genuine application of the biopsychosocial approach to the comprehension of the human mind. It differs from other specialties basically in three aspects:
In the type of attended population: you present yourself with cognitive malfunctions, disorders of the conduct or functional problems in those that there suspects the affectation of the central nervous system. For example, schizophrenia, dementia, acquired cerebral injury, genetic and neurological illnesses, poisonings, hyperactivity, AIDS, cancer, drug dependency, etc. In the treated problems: injuries or malfunctions of the brain. In the procedures and used skills: tests neuropsicológicos, you try neuroimagen and psychological therapies (modification of conduct, neurorrehabilitación, familiar therapy, etc.).
FUNCTIONS OF THE NEUROPSICÓLOGO
They consist in:
The clinical diagnosis of the cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning by means of standardized tests. The treatment: by means of psicoterapéuticas skills and procedures of rehabilitation, helping the patient whom it returns at a level of normal functioning after the illness or injury or, in his case, so that he enjoys a suitable quality of life. The advice and consultancy: facing patients, relatives, sanitary and welfare personnel.
AMBIENCES OF PERFORMANCE OF THE NEUROPSICÓLOGO
Geriatric centers: day centers and residences. Departments of neurology, units of memory and of demencias. Pharmaceutical companies: level determination of neurotoxicidad of medicines. Teams of mental health. Forensic psychology: determination of bodily harm (cerebral injuries). Infantile psychology.
WHAT DOCTOR CAN TREAT ME?
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