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Neuropsychology is the applied science of brain-behavior relations; it relates observable behavior deficits to brain dysfunction or damage. The neuropsychologist uses assessment instruments to quantify subjects’ levels of performance on tasks which sample a variety of functions (new learning, remote memory, language, sensory perception, etc.). Where specific brain systems or processes are known to provide the substrate for normal performance of these functions, subnormal test scores may be used to infer dysfunction of those processes or damage in those systems. This clinical role of providing diagnostic information about brain injured soldiers initiated neuropsychological assessment (Luria, 1966, 1973).
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Moffitt, T.E. (1988). Neuropsychology and Self-Reported Early Delinquency in an Unselected Birth Cohort: A Preliminary Report from New Zealand. In: Moffitt, T.E., Mednick, S.A. (eds) Biological Contributions to Crime Causation. NATO ASI Series, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2768-1_6
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