Sample Neuropsychology Lecture and Presentation Topics
Forensic
- Basics of a forensic neuropsychological examination
- Uses of psychological testimony in a forensic setting
- Mild head injury and persistent post concussive disorder: Plaintiff and defense perspectives
- Neuropsychology and capital cases
- Aging and competency assessment
- Motivation and malingering in the forensic setting: Assessment issues
- Psychological issues in case preparation: From client preparation to jury selection
General Interest
- Memory: How it works and how to improve it
- Positive Psychology: How to be happy (The science of joy)
- Sadness or Depression? How to beat the blues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): How the changing seasons affect our mood
- The therapeutic benefits of humor: How to laugh your way to health
- Combating professional and personal burnout
- Creative methods of stress management, relaxation procedures and self-hypnosis
- Medication effects on cognition and memory
- Sleep Hygiene: How to get a better night of sleep
Medical
- Hospital based neuropsychology: Provision of a cost effective and clinically useful practice
- Rehabilitation of the brain injury survivor
- Stroke prevention and rehabilitation
- Mild traumatic head injury: Diagnosis and treatment issues
- Functional neuroanatomy
- Issues in cognitive rehabilitation: Evidence based practice
- Frontal lobe and executive functions: Diagnosis and treatment issues
- Management of the high and low functioning brain injury patient
- Management of the difficult neurological rehabilitation patient
- Specific disorders (neuropsychological conditions such as mild traumatic head injury, dementia, aphasia, apraxia, anosognosia, etc.)
- Treatment of the bad outcome mild head injury patient: A psycho-neurological rehabilitation approach
School Based/Educational
- Behavioral management in the school setting: A developmental perspective
- Parent effectiveness training
- Learning disability: Assessment and intervention
- Attention deficit hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Assessment and intervention
- Autism spectrum disorders: Assessment and intervention
- Suicide prevention
- Assessment and education of the gifted child
- Identification and prevention of substance use and abuse in adolescents