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PERSPECTIVES ONBEHAVIOUR,BIOLOGICAL, SOCIALDIFFERENCES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Neuropsychological functions affected by accident ...................................................................12. Brain areas affected by the event ................................................................................................13. Neuropsychological tests for diagnosis ......................................................................................14. Methodological issues related to proposed neuropsychological tests .........................................25. Neuropsychological perspective that symptoms of RA are not result of malingering ...............26. Conditions pointing that normal performance is not indication of recovery ..............................3REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................4
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1. Neuropsychological functions affected by accident The neuropsychological function which is greatly affected in RA is the cognitiveprocesses. RA is experiencing difficulty in memorising things. Though he does not realise thathe is facing difficulty because he naturally forgets the things which he needs to remember. Theneuropsychological dysfunctionality has lead to traumatic brain injury and as result of thisvarious symptoms of cognitive impairment are identified in RA. He believes that he is doingabsolutely well but the surrounding people are able to notice the differences in his mentalflexibility, ability to remember events, inhibitory control and capabilities to organize theactivities. The concussion or the mild traumatic injury can cause the events of fatigue andirritability (Sohlberg & Mateer, 2017). The same has been also experienced by RA. Thus, onbroad sense it can be analysed that the neuropsychological functionality related to cognition hasbeen affected by the accident. 2. Brain areas affected by the event The brain injury has influenced the memory portions which deal with long and short termmemory as well as perspective memory. Due to perspective memory defects RA is facing issueslike forgetting appointments or meetings while the long term and short term memory is causingthe loss of memories related to routine activities or events. The cerebral cortex is responsible forthe brain functioning like memory, perceptual awareness and attention. It is possible that thedifferent parts of cerebral cortex of RA may get injured due to accident. Though he is conscious and returned to his routine normal life it means that the braininjury has not completely damaged the brain portions. The injury has just introduced somedefects. The frontal lobe of cortex affects the decision making process, short term memoryprocessing and events of long term memorisation. The significant role in managing long termmemory and senses is due to temporal lobe (Parkin & Leng, 2014). Thus, the regular fatigue andcognitive impairment is caused due to the injury to this brain portion. 3. Neuropsychological tests for diagnosis Neuropsychological tests will determine and assess the brain functionality of RA thathow his brain is working and performing functions. These tests do not include the electronicdevices for the assessment purpose instead they use the psychological and emotional issues to1
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