Neuropsychology
Objectives and services
Clinical neuropsychology is a branch of neuroscience concerned with the detection, description and treatment of cognitive and behavioural deficits after cerebral diseases. A wide range of disorders is covered, including deficits of attention, memory and problem solving, speech and speaking problems, cerebral disorders causing impaired vision, psychic changes, and so on. Classification and quantification of these deficits are based on detailed clinical observation and accurately validated psychometric methods, supplemented by experimental paradigms and modern imaging technologies such as functional nuclear magnetic resonance tomography (fNMR) or positron emission tomography (PET).
Therapies aim at restituting the impaired functions. Where that proves to be impossible, therapists will try to mobilise remaining functions (compensation), utilise external means (substitution) or adapt the vicinity to the damaged region (adaptation) in order to reintegrate patients in their normal life.
Our clinical offering of acute therapies is based around the diagnostics and differential diagnostics of neuropsychological impairments. Following registration and presentation of a referral, examinations can be performed on outpatients during our consultation hours for neurological and neuropsychological rehabilitation. For further information point your Internet browser to the site of the Neurological Clinic of Ulm University at:
http://www.uniklinik-ulm.de/struktur/kliniken/neurologie.html.
Inpatient neurological rehabilitation (stage C) adds to the above by its wide range of established neuropsychological therapies of proven efficacy, including all logopaedic and ergotherapeutic services (e.g. diagnosis and therapy of memory, attention and perception deficits; treatment of speech, speaking, swallowing and vocal problems; advice to patients and relatives).
There are also plans for another therapeutic option in the near future concerning supplementary pharmacological intervention to treat stroke patients with subsequent functional cognitive and motor deficits. Pilot studies praise this option as a promising new strategy.
Contact
PD Dr. I. Uttner
Clinical Neuropsychologist GNP; Phone: 0731 / 177-5215
Frau Dipl.-Psych. J. Heimrath, Phone: 0731 / 177-5221