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Psychophysiological Evaluation of Children’s Neuropsychological Disorders

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Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology

Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Neuropsychology ((CINP))

Abstract

The objective of this chapter is to discuss those procedures that explore psychological processes by measuring different physiological variates. Study of brain electrical activity in humans allows the exploration of two fundamental levels of function, a very basic one, which gives information about the functional and anatomical integrity of the nervous system, and a second one, which explores higher cognitive activity. At the first level, it is possible to detect such localized lesions as an epileptogenic focus or functional alterations of the sensory pathways. Here, accumulated knowledge of brain electrical activity is strong enough to have practical clinical applications leading to differential diagnosis and differential treatment.

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