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.

6.3.2 Optic Aphasia 6.3.3 Blindsight 7. Memory 7.1 Types of Memories. 7.

1.1 Working Memory and Short-term Memory. 7.1.2 Long-term Memory 7.2 Disorders of Memory. 7.2.

1 Amnesia: Retrograde and Anterograde 7.2.2 Dementias 8. Hearing and Language Processing 8.1 Auditory System. 8.1.1 Sound 8.

1.2 The Ear 8.1.3 Auditory Pathways 8.1.4 Auditory Cortices 8.2 Language systems in the brain. 8.

2.1 Models of Spoken Language 8.2.2 Models of Visual Language 8.2.3 Prosody and the Role of the Right Hemisphere in Language Processing. 8.2.

4 Interim Summary 8.3 Disorders of Language and Auditory Perception. 8.3.1 Aphasia 8.3.2 Subtypes of acquired alexia 8.3.

2 Alexia without agraphia 8.3.3 Agraphia without alexia 8.3.4 Subtypes of acquired agraphia 8.3.5 Aprosodias 9. Emotion 9.

1 Emotion. 9.1.1 What is emotion? How does it differ from motivation? 9.1.2 Theories of emotion 9.1.3 Laterality of emotion 9.

1.4 Role of subcortical structures in emotion. 9.1.5 Role of cortex in emotion 9.2 Disorders of Emotion. 9.2.

1 Brain Damage and Lack of Affect 9.2.2 Klüver-Bucy Syndrome 9.2.3 Mood Disorders 10. Spatial Ability 10.1 Spatial Ability. 10.

1.1 What is Spatial Ability? 10.1.2 Hemispheric Representation of Space 10.1.3 Parietal Lobes 10.1.4 Frontal Lobes 10.

1.5 Temporal Lobes 10.1.6 Personal Representations of Space 10.1.7 Extrapersonal Space. 10.2 Disorders of Spatial Ability.

10.2.1 Disturbances in Personal Space 10.2.2 Disturbances of Extrapersonal Space 10.2.3 Balint-Holmes Syndrome. 11.

Attention and Consciousness 11.1 Studying Attention. 11.1.1 Early versus late selection 11.1.2 How does attention shift? Voluntary versus Reflexive Orienting 11.1.

3 Neural system(s) subserving attention 11.2 Studying Consciousness. 11.2.1 Defining Consciousness 11.2.2 The neural basis of consciousness 11.2.

3 Methods of Studying Consciousness 11.3 Disorders of Attention and Consciousness. 11.3.1 Blindsight 11.3.2 Spatial Neglect 11.3.

3 Bálint-Holmes syndrome. 12. Neural Development and Developmental Disorders 12.1 Neural Development 12.1.1 Early Development 12.1.2 Post Natal development 12.

1.2.1 Parietal Lobe Development 12.1.2.2 Occipital Lobe Development 12.1.2.

3 Temporal Lobe Development 12.1.2.4 Frontal Lobe Development 12.2 Disorders of Development 12.2.1 Potential Causes of Developmental Abnormalities 12.2.

2 Developmental Dyslexia 12.2.3 Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) 12.2.4 Autism 13. Human Brain Damage 13.1 Causes of Brain Damage. 13.

1.1 Tumors 13.1.1.1 Tumors arising from glial cells. 13.1.1.

2 Tumors arising from the meninges 13.1.1.3 Metastatic tumors 13.1.2 Cerebrovascular Disorders 13.1.3 Head Injuries 13.

1.3.1 Traumatic Brain Injury 13.1.3.2 Closed versus Open head Injury 13.1.4 Infections 13.

1.5 Neurotoxins 13.2 Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases. 13.2.1 The Epilepsies. 13.2.

2 Multiple Sclerosis and Amyotrophic Lateralizing Sclerosis 13.2.3 Schizophrenia 13.2.4 Mood Disorders.