The neuropsychology of delusions

Paraphrenia and Persecutory Delusions: Brief Reflection about Neuropsychology Evaluation in the Elderly without Dementia

Naming psychiatric disorders began long go with Hippocrates in 460-377 (b.c.). Pinel and Esquirol in the eighteenth century also proposed new concepts to classify psychiatric illnesses based on observations and data systematization. Nineteenth century, Kraepelin modified the classification, based also on observation and organization of symptoms. This is where the term early dementia came from. ...

The intersubjectivity of delusions.

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The science of neuropsychology

The neuropsychology of anxiety.

The neuropsychology of disgust.

Beginning with the landmark case of Phineas Gage (Harlow, 1868), studies of neurological patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) damage have time and again demonstrated a critical role for this brain area in various aspects of emotion, social cognition and decision-making. The importance of vmPFC for social and affective function is further underscored by a host of clinical neuroim...