1. Introduction to Neuropsychology

1.1 Introduction to Neuropsychology

1.1.1 The 10% Myth

1.1.2 What is Neuropsychology?

1.1.3 Heart, Mind, and Brain: The Early History of Neuropsychology

1.1.4 The Mind-Body problem

1.2 The Recent History of Neuropsychology

1.2.1 Cataloguing the Effects of Lesions.

1.2.2 Focus on the Neuron.

1.2.3 The Brain Mappers.

1.2.4 Functional Neurosurgery.

1.2.5 The Paradigm Shift in Neuropsychology

2. Neuroanatomy

2.1 Cells of the Nervous System.

2.1.1 Neurons & Glia: Structure and Function

2.1.2 Communication within the Neuron: The Action Potential

2.1.3 Communication between Neurons: The Synapse

2.1.4 Neurotransmitters

2.2 The Nervous System.

2.2.1 Positional Terms

2.2.2. Divisions of the Nervous System

2.2.3 Spinal Cord.2.2.4 Divisions of the Brain

2.2.5 Hindbrain

2.2.6 Midbrain

2.2.7 Forebrain

2.2.8 Connections between the two halves of the brain

2.2.9 Cranial Nerves

2.2.10 Blood Supply

2.2.11 Protection

2.2.11.1 Bone

2.2.11.2 The Meninges

2.2.11.3 The Ventricular System

2.2.11.4 The Blood-Brain Barrier.

3. Techniques in Neuropsychology

3.1 Study of the damaged nervous system.

3.1.1. The Scientific Method

3.1.2 Non-human animal models

3.1.3 Cognitive testing.

3.2 Brain Imaging.

3.2.1 Structural Imaging

3.2.2 Electrophysiological Measures

3.2.3 Functional imaging

4. Laterality

4.1 Methods.

4.1.1 Split brain

4.1.2 Sodium Amytal

4.1.3 Dichotic Listening

4.1.4 Tachistoscopic Presentations

4.1.5 Dual Task Paradigms

4.2 Neuroanatomical, Neurochemical, and Behavioral Findings.

4.2.1 Neuroanatomical asymmetries

4.2.2 Neurochemical asymmetries

4.2.3 Functional asymmetries

4.3 Why is there Hemispheric Specialization?

4.3.1 Environmental theories

4.3.2 Genetic theories

4.3.3 Developmental theories

4.3.4 Evolutionary theories.

5. The Sensorimotor System

5.1 Sensorimotor System.

5.1.1 Why sensorimotor?

5.1.2 Somatosensory receptors

5.1.3. Somatosensory pathways in the brain

5.1.4 Association Cortex

5.1.5 Secondary Motor Cortex

5.1.6 Primary Motor Cortex

5.1.7 Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum.

5.1.8 Descending and Ascending Motor Pathways

5.2 Deficits in the Sensorimotor System.

5.2.1 Cortical Sensorimotor Disorders

5.2.2 Subcortical Motor Disorders

6. Sensation and Perception: Vision

6.1 Organization of sensory systems.

6.1.1 Hierarchical Organization

6.1.2 Segregation

6.1.3 Parallel Processing

6.2 Visual System.

6.2.1 Light: Stimulus for the visual system

6.2.2 The Eye and Retina

6.2.3 Retino-geniculate-striate system

6.2.4 Dorsal and Ventral Stream of Processing

6.3 Deficits in the Visual System.

6.3.1 Agnosia.