Adult Neuropsychology

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The development of neuropsychology, which is responsible for studying the relationship between the brain and behavior throughout development, both under normal conditions and pathology, is closely linked to the adult stage. Although in the origins of this area, aphasias were the syndromes mostly associated with the neuropsychological study of the adult, there are currently other syndromes (eg mild cognitive impairment, dementia and schizophrenia) that have the same clinical and epidemiological importance and that share similar etiologies can be analyzed from a neuropsychological point of view. This course will facilitate the development of tools for the evaluation and diagnosis process that allow explaining human behavior from different levels of integration.