Behavioral Science 4 (Neuropsychology)

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Topic

Neuropsychology curriculum aims to demonstrate the behavioral, mental and psychological effect and consequences of central nervous system lesion, dysfunctions and diseases. Prior to dysfunctions, the semester teaches and demonstrates psychophysiological and neurobiological mechanisms of perception, attention, memory, language, motivation, emotion, social and other behavioral phenomena related to the healthy, normal brain and CNS. Client and patient case studies will be demonstrated and analysed about dysfunctions and illnesses, thereby providing important and indispensable contribution and preparation for later neurological, psychiatrical, neurosurgical studies, as well as for behavioral and psychosomatic medicine.

Lectures

• 1. Introduction to neuropsychology: clinical background of neuropsychological disorders - Karádi Kázmér Kornél
• 2. The neuropsychology of visual perception and low-level visual processing deficits - Csathó Árpád István
• 3. Higher-order visual perceptual disorders: characteristics of agnosias - Csathó Árpád István
• 4. Attention development and neuropsychological characteristics - Csathó Árpád István
• 5. Neuropsychological disorders of attention - Csathó Árpád István
• 6. The neuropsychology of memory - Karádi Kázmér Kornél
• 7. The neuropsychology of dementias - Karádi Kázmér Kornél
• 8. Neuropsychology of Parkinson's disease. - Karádi Kázmér Kornél
• 9.

  Normal and pathological language, neuropsychology of their disorders

  - Darnai Gergely
• 10.

  Neuropsychology of human emotions

  - Matuz András
• 11.

  The neuropsychology of consciousness

  - Darnai Gergely
• 12.

  Neuropsychology of depression

  - Matuz András
• 13.

  Neuropsychology of schizophrenia

  - Darnai Gergely
• 14.

  Summary of neuropsychology

  - Matuz András

Practices

Seminars

• 1. The concept of neuropsychology. Research and practical methods of psychology.
• 2. The concept of neuropsychology. Research and practical methods of psychology.
• 3. Phenomena of normal and pathological perception. Agnosias.
• 4. Phenomena of normal and pathological perception. Agnosias.
• 5. Neuropsychology of attention.
• 6. Neuropsychology of attention.
• 7. Neuropsychology of memory and memory disturbances.
• 8. Neuropsychology of memory and memory disturbances.
• 9. Neuropsychology of aphasias.
• 10. Neuropsychology of aphasias.
• 11. Neuropsychology of emotions.
• 12. Neuropsychology of emotions.
• 13. Neuropsychology of higher cognitive and social behaviours.
• 14. Neuropsychology of higher cognitive and social behaviours.

Reading material

Obligatory literature

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Literature developed by the Department

Syllabi on the Potepedia.

Notes

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Recommended literature

J. Sterling: Introducing Neuropsychology, Psychology Press, 2002

B. Kolb, I.Q. Whishaw: Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, 3rd or any later edition

J. R. Hodges: Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians, Oxford University Press, 1996 (paperback)

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Rules of education.

Mid-term exams

The semester examination will be oral. Attendance of the lectures and seminars is mandatory and essential to complete the preparation. The recommended books contain 60% of the required material.

Making up for missed classes

Absences must be validated and certified. Subsequently absentees must present actively a contribution that they prepared for and acquired the missed parts of the curriculum material.

Exam topics/questions

1. The principles of clinical neuropsychology: neuropsychology of traumatic brain injury

2. The functional levels of the visual perception and the neuropsychological dysfunctions associated with each level

3. Comparison of the functions of the dorsal and ventral visual pathways and the consequences of their damage

4. Forms of visual agnosia and their characteristics

5. The neural systems of attention and their functions

6. Neuropsychology of the spatial hemineglect and Bálint syndrome

7. Models of language processing: the Wernicke-Geschwind model and the what-where system

8. Types of aphasia: Wernicke's, Broca's, transcortical and conduction aphasia

9. Theories of emotions

10. The neural background of emotions

11. Neuropsychological dysfunctions in Alzheimer's disease

12. Neuropsychological dysfunctions in Parkinson's disease

13. Fronto-striatal model of Parkinson's disease

14. Neuropsychology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

15. Memory classification I: sensory, short-term and long-term memory

16. Memory classification II: explicit and implicit memory

17. Neural background of working memory, the symptoms of executive dysfunction

18. Neuropsychological dysfunctions in depression

19. Neuropsychological dysfunctions in schizophrenia

20. The disorders of consciousness: disorders of alertness and integrity of consciousness and other disorders of consciousness

Examiners

• Csathó Árpád István
• Darnai Gergely
• Karádi Kázmér Kornél
• Matuz András

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Csathó Árpád István
• Darnai Gergely
• Karádi Kázmér Kornél
• KURZUSHOZ RENDELT OKTATÓ
• Matuz András