Cognitive neuropsychology and its application to children
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Cognitive neuropsychology can provide models based on the functional lesions manifest within developing systems to chart patterns of intact and deficient skills in childhood neuropsychological disorders. Cognitive neuropsychology has been applied to face recognition, language and arithmetical disorders, which illustrate the limitations of functional plasticity in development. The methodological issues, modularity principles, significance of individual differences, dynamics of developing systems, views on plasticity, and acquired and developmental disorders are discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1997
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The use of dreams in the evaluation of severely disturbed patients
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Dreams may be helpful in diagnosis of repressed childhood trauma, underlying borderline or psychotic pathology and potential mental breakdown. Childhood trauma may be indicated by vivid dreams with a persisting feeling of authenticity or by repetition of some minor detail in a series of dreams. Primitive dream content, such as extreme violence or fragmented bodies, can indicate underlying pathology. Images of ego disintegration or world destruction may indicate the possibility of mental breakdown.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 1992
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Direct interpretation of dreams: neuropsychology
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New research suggesting that dreams play a role in regulating behavior may substantiate earlier psychoanalytic interest in dreams. Dreams may enable the mind to develop new methods of problem solving by working through the right or nondominant hemisphere of the brain. Dreams may shape attitudes, emotions, and purposes. Modern theories postulate that dreams are affected by the mind's organizational structure based on intellectual complexity, age, and the way the brain receives information.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 1996
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