Neuropsychology is both an academic
discipline and one of the applied medical arts, often called clinical
neuropsychology. Neuropsychologists are
psychologists who have taken postdoctoral training in the area of
neuropsychology. In the forensic cases
they are typically given referrals by neurologists who depend on their
psychological testing to assess neurological decrements not revealed by the neurologist’s
tools.
While neuropsychological testing can provide the neurologist with
valuable information about a patient’s neurological condition, to use those
testing results to support the conclusion of a “neuropsychological injury” is
to open the door to a double recovery for a single neurological
injury.
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