Course Title: Clinical Neuropsychology (227 M 1880)
Qualified Applicants: Graduate student in clinical psychology program and the prerequisite course of Clinical Neuropsychology: An Introduction (227 U7000)
Course Objectives: To introduce neuropsychological and neuropathological features of neurobehavioral syndromes.
Course Outline: 1. An overview of neurobehavioral syndromes
2. Concepts of symptom, sign, and syndrome, and clinical implications
3. Diffuse cortical degenerative dementia: AD type
4. Diffuse subcortical degenerative dementia: PD, HD and others’ type
5. Diffuse cortical and subcortical degenerative dementia: DLB
6. Focal cortical degenerative dementia: FTD, SD, and PPA
7. Vascular dementia
8. Agnosia
9. Aphasia, alexia, agraphia
10. Acalculia
11. Amnesia
12. Apraxia
13. Confusional state
14. Attentional disorder
15. Deficits of body scheme
16. Visuoperceptual and visuospatial disoders
17. Executive dysfunction