Procedures and treatment
- electroencephalogram (EEG) test
- electromyography (EMG) test
- sleep EEG test
- evoked potential (EP) test
Neuropsychology is the study and characterization of the behavioral modifications
that follow a neurological trauma or condition.[1] It is both an experimental and
clinical field of psychology that aims to understand how behavior and cognition are influenced
by brain functioning and is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral and cognitive
effects of neurological disorders. Whereas classical neurology focuses on the pathology of the
nervous system and classical psychology is largely divorced from it, neuropsychology seeks to
discover how the brain correlates with the mind through the study of neurological patients.
It thus shares concepts and concerns with neuropsychiatry and with behavioral neurology in
general. The term neuropsychology has been applied to lesion studies in humans and animals.
It has also been applied in efforts to record electrical activity from individual
cells (or groups of cells) in higher primates (including some studies of human patients).
Clinical neurophysiological procedures commonly used in diagnosing and treating neurological disorders include EEG, MEG, EMG, evoked potentials,
polysomnography, epilepsy monitoring, intraoperative monitoring, movement monitoring (including electronystagmography), and autonomic nervous system testing.
