Module PY2611-KP06

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Psychology 2027, compulsory, psychology
• Bachelor Psychology 2020, compulsory, psychology

Classes and lectures:

• Neuropsychology - Disorders and Diagnostics (lecture, 2 SWS)
• Neuropsychology - Disorders and Diagnostics (seminar / exercises, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 90 hours private studies
• 30 hours exercises in groups
• 60 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• History of Clinical Neuropsychology
• Methods, investigation logic, syndrome theory
• Neuropsychological examination and assessment
• Speech, Sensory, Attention
• Visual processing and object recognition
• Spatial Orientation and Neglects Syndromes
• Learning and memory processes
• Executive functions
• Development and ageing
• Objectives of test diagnostics and fault diagnostics
• Tests to detect disorders of attention, memory, learning, executive functions, mood, and well-being.
• Interpretation of test profiles and calculation of critical differences

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students possess skills in describing structural-functional relationships between the brain and mental functions and can establish connections to modern neuroscientific theories.
• You have the ability to apply this to specific patient examples.
• You are confident in handling clinical data.
• Students possess practical skills and experience in the diagnosis of mental functions and neuropsychological disorders.
• You have acquired initial skills in independently performing test procedures, critically evaluating them, interpreting them in a clinical context, and assessing their susceptibility to error.
• Students know how to assess the significance of quantitative and qualitative clinical information and apply it to specific clinical cases.
• You have the ability to use test results to formulate statements about diagnoses, the severity of a disorder, prognosis, and therapy goals.

Grading through:

• written exam

Requires:

• Cognitive ability testing and personality assessment (PY2900-KP05)

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marcus Heldmann

Teacher:

• Department of Neurology
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marcus Heldmann
• Dr. rer. hum. biol. Andreas Sprenger
• Dr. rer. hum. biol., Dipl.-Psych. Anja Fellbrich
• Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Psych. Daniel Wiswede

Literature:

• Sturm, Herrmann & Münte : Lehrbuch der klinischen Neuropsychologie Spektrum
• Drechsler, Heinemann, Schellig & Sturm : Handbuch neuropsychologischer Testverfahren 1: Aufmerksamkeit, Gedächtnis und exekutive Funktionen Hogrefe
• Hartje & Poeck : Klinische Neuropsychologie Thieme

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

07.11.2025