Neuropsychology - Topics

Concussion recovery: when is it safe to return to sport? Executive function after traumatic brain injury: why does planning collapse? Memory loss after a stroke: which functions return and which do not? Cognitive rehabilitation: does brain training transfer to everyday life? What does a neuropsychological assessment actually measure? Blindsight: how can someone respond to what they cannot see? Split-brain surgery: what did the separated hemispheres reveal? Language lateralization: why is the left hemisphere dominant in most people? Why does executive function decline with age and what slows it down? What happens to executive function after a concussion? What do the three core executive function components actually measure? How are effort and malingering detected in a cognitive test battery? Telling normal aging from early Alzheimer's on a test: where is the line? Does response inhibition decline with age and at what point? Aphasia after a stroke: why can a patient speak but not read? Spatial neglect after right hemisphere damage: why does half the world vanish? Why does damage to the right inferior frontal gyrus wreck stopping? Why does a frontal lobe injury change personality more than intelligence?