Clinical psychology. Concepts of neuropsychological factor, symptom and syndrome (most important)

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38. Concepts of neuropsychological factor, symptom and syndrome

"The neuropsychological factor is the principle of the physiological activity of a certain brain structure. It is a connecting concept between mental functions and a working brain.

Syndrome analysis is a tool for identifying neuropsychological factors, which includes:

1) qualitative qualification of violations of mental functions with an explanation of the reasons for the changes that have occurred;

2) analysis and comparison of primary and secondary disorders, i.e., the establishment of causal relationships between the direct source of pathology and emerging disorders;

3) study of the composition of preserved higher mental functions.

We list the main neuropsychological factors:

1) modal-non-specific (energy) factor;

2) kinetic factor;

3) modal-specific factor;

4) kinesthetic factor (a special case of modal-specific factor);

5) factor of arbitrary-involuntary regulation of mental activity;

6) the factor of awareness-unconsciousness of mental functions and states;

7) the successive factor (consistency) of the organization of higher mental functions;

8) the factor of simultaneity (simultaneity) of the organization of higher mental functions;

9) factor of interhemispheric interaction;

10) general cerebral factor;

11) factor of the work of deep subcortical structures.

Neuropsychological symptom - a violation of mental functions as a result of local lesions of the brain.

A syndrome is a regular combination of symptoms based on a neuropsychological factor, that is, certain physiological patterns of the work of brain regions, the violation of which is the cause of neuropsychological symptoms.

Neuropsychological syndrome is a fusion of neuropsychological symptoms associated with the loss of one or more factors.

Syndromic analysis is the analysis of neuropsychological symptoms, the main goal of which is to find a common factor that fully explains the appearance of different neuropsychological symptoms. Syndromic analysis includes the following stages: first, the signs of pathology of various mental functions are determined, and then the symptoms are qualified.

Author: Vedekhina S.A.

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