Neuropsychology

This pdf contains 7 condensed yet comprehensive summaries explaining traumatic head injury, mechanisms of impact during injury, penetrating head injury, closed head injury, assessing severity of brain injury, complications of brain injury (oedema, herniation, skull fractures, posttraumatic epilepsy) and mild head injury. These notes are ideal for revision before tests and for use as study notes for neuropsychology.

The following essay aims to discuss the social and health consequences caused by excessive cannabis-use, lending focus to its effects on brain-development. The essay will also confront the areas in which cannabis-use, if regulated, can be a necessity for medical treatment for neurological disorders people live with today.

Summary of Location, functioning and impairment Discussion of case studies and measurment

Chapter 13 Summary - Occipital Lobes Summary of their location, functioning and impairment implications. Discussion of case studies List of measurement tools associated with occipital lobe functioning

Chapter 26: Frontal lobes Summary of Location, function and impairment of frontal lobes. Plus 2 Case study discussions (from Sacks and Ogden) List of measurements used to assess frontal lobe functioning

Summaries