Neuropsychology Glossary

Executive function component involving the ability to adapt thinking and behavior in response to changing rules, demands...

Brain's resilience to pathological damage through efficient networks and cognitive strategies.

Framework explaining how individual differences in brain efficiency and capacity influence vulnerability to age-related...

The production of false or distorted memories without conscious intent to deceive.

Impaired ability to construct or assemble objects, drawings, or designs despite adequate motor and sensory function.

A type of dementia primarily affecting cortical brain regions, characterized by language, memory, and visuospatial defic...

A nihilistic delusion where patients believe they are dead, do not exist, or have lost body parts or organs.

Controlled Oral Word Association Test, measuring verbal fluency using letter and category prompts.

A comprehensive neuropsychological battery designed to assess multiple components of executive functioning in isolation...

Neurological condition resulting from damage to white matter pathways that connect different brain regions, causing cogn...

Loss of normal behavioral and social restraints, often following frontal lobe damage, resulting in inappropriate actions...

Specific inability to dress oneself properly despite adequate motor function and clothing recognition.

Motor speech disorder resulting from weakness, paralysis, or poor coordination of speech muscles.

A constellation of cognitive and behavioral symptoms resulting from executive function deficits.

A language disorder involving difficulty producing or understanding speech, often resulting from brain injury or stroke.

Degree to which test performance predicts real-world functioning and daily living abilities.

Specialized neuropsychological procedures designed to evaluate whether patients are providing optimal effort during cogn...

Excessive reliance on environmental cues to guide behavior, often leading to inappropriate imitation or object use.

Higher-order cognitive processes including planning, working memory, attention control, and cognitive flexibility.

Specific inability to identify, name, or point to individual fingers on command.

A misidentification syndrome where patients believe different people are actually the same person in disguise.

A neurological condition where patients lose the ability to walk normally despite having no motor weakness, sensory loss...

A standardized tool for assessing level of consciousness following brain injury.

Ability to recognize letters or numbers traced on the skin through touch alone.