{"id":8556,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neuropsychology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:59","slug":"neuropsychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neuropsychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuropsychology"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sub-discipline in physiological psychology that studies brain-behavior relationships in humans, particularly those relating to cognitive functions, by means of specially-devised tests and the use of experimental procedures.  Studies of patients with verifiable brain lesions has become a hallmark of research in neuropsychology, following the operation carried out by the neurosurgeon William B. Scoville<\/a> (1906-1984) in 1953 on the epileptic patient H.M<\/a>.  The bilateral removal of the hippocampus and associated structures resulted in H.M. being unable to store or retrieve new memories.  As a consequence, research shifted from attempts to localise memory to studying how memories are stored or retrieved.  The term ‘neuropsychology’ appears to have been used first by the physician William Osler<\/a> (1849-1919) in 1913 during a talk he gave to mark the opening of the Phipps Clinic<\/a> at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Through the work of Karl S. Lashley <\/a>(1890-1958) and the publication of Donald O. Hebb<\/a>‘s (1904-1985) influential book The organization of behavior<\/span> <\/a>(1949), the term became more widely used. <\/p>\n

See Clinical neuropsychology<\/a>, Cognitive neuroscience<\/a>, Cognitive psychology<\/a>, Double dissociation<\/a>, Forensic psychologist<\/a>, Hippocampus<\/a>, Memory<\/a>, Neurology<\/a>, Neurophysiology<\/a>, Neuroscience<\/a><\/p>\n

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A sub-discipline in physiological psychology that studies brain-behavior relationships in humans, particularly those relating to cognitive functions, by means of specially-devised tests and the use of experimental procedures.  Studies of patients with verifiable brain lesions has become a hallmark of research in neuropsychology, following the operation carried out by the neurosurgeon William B. Scoville (1906-1984) … <\/p>\n

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