Case Studies in Neuropsychology 2500-EN-S-97
During the course you are going to be familiarized with and get a chance
to discuss case studies of patients suffering from a number of conditions:
aphasia, amnesia, agnosia, executive dysfunction, mild and severe brain
injury; hemorrhages; epilepsy, neurotoxicity and degenerative disorders.
Some of the conditions - mentioned above - have already been briefly
discussed during “The basic issues in neuropsychological assessment”
course; this course is a chance to deepen knowledge not only about
assessment methods used in clinical practice, but also to get a much
wider perspective and holistic approach when it comes to working with
neuropsychological patients. While discussing the cases, some very
important issues of neuropsychological examination such as interview,
test selection and interpretation procedures are going to be introduced as
well.
Type of course
Learning outcomes
After completing the classes students are expected to be able to give
appropriate information when it comes to neuropsychological patient
approach such as: patient’s and family interview; way of selecting the
methods and tests for the assessment; communicating the results of the
assessment.
Student’s are expected as well to be familiarized with the way of
presenting case studies in neuropsychology and reading with
understanding scientific articles concerning the discipline.
Assessment criteria
Two absences without an excuse are allowed.
In case of additional absence with excuse, student is going to be asked to
complete additional work
Every week, at home, student/s is/are asked to prepare a short
presentation (e.g. case study summary), based on books’ chapters
and articles pointed by the instructor, later presented in front of the
class (up to 20% of the final mark)
Students are asked to read selected texts, pointed out by the
instructor, before the classes and then to take active part in classes,
especially during discussions devoted to different methods of
assessment (up to 10% of the final mark)
Before the end of the classes students will be asked to propose
methods of assessment and their predicted outcome for patients with
particular impairments (20%).
Every participant is obliged to take a written test which is going to be
carried out during the last class (50% of the final mark).
Additional information
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