Dyslexia, also known until the 1960s as word blindness, is a learning disability that affects reading. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the head, pronouncing words when reading aloud and understanding what one reads. Often these difficulties are first noticed at school. The difficulties are involuntary, and people with this disorder have a normal desire to learn. People with dyslexia have higher rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), developmental language disorders, and difficulties with numbers.
Clinical neuropsychology is a sub-field of psychology concerned with the applied science of brain-behaviour relationships. Clinical neuropsychologists use this knowledge in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and or rehabilitation of patients across the lifespan with neurological, medical, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions, as well as other cognitive and learning disorders. The branch of neuropsychology associated with children and young people is pediatric neuropsychology.
Nonverbal learning disability (NVLD) is proposed neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by core deficits in visual-spatial processing and a significant discrepancy between verbal and nonverbal intelligence. A review of papers found that proposed diagnostic criteria were inconsistent. Proposed additional diagnostic criteria include intact verbal intelligence, and deficits in the following: visuoconstruction abilities, speech prosody, fine-motor coordination, mathematical reasoning, visuospatial memory and social skills. NVLD is not recognised by the DSM-5 and is not clinically distinct from learning disorder.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to psychology:
Christopher Donald Frith, is a British psychologist and professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. Visiting Professor at the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering cognitive neuroscience. It aims for a cross-discipline approach, covering research in neuroscience, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy. The journal is published by the MIT Press and the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and the editor-in-chief is Bradley R. Postle.
Some of the research that is conducted in the field of psychology is more "fundamental" than the research conducted in the applied psychological disciplines, and does not necessarily have a direct application. The subdisciplines within psychology that can be thought to reflect a basic-science orientation include biological psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and so on. Research in these subdisciplines is characterized by methodological rigor. The concern of psychology as a basic science is in understanding the laws and processes that underlie behavior, cognition, and emotion. Psychology as a basic science provides a foundation for applied psychology. Applied psychology, by contrast, involves the application of psychological principles and theories yielded up by the basic psychological sciences; these applications are aimed at overcoming problems or promoting well-being in areas such as mental and physical health and education.
Neuropsychology(journal) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1987 and covers neuropsychology. It is published by the American Psychological Association.
Dorothy Vera Margaret Bishop is a British psychologist specialising in developmental disorders specifically, developmental language impairments. She is Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, where she has been since 1998. Bishop is Principal Investigator for the Oxford Study of Children's Communication Impairments (OSCCI). She is a supernumary fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
Vicki Anderson is an Australian clinical neuropsychologist and researcher. Since 2002 she has been the Theme Director of the Critical Care and Neurosciences group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and she established the Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychological Studies at the Royal Children's Hospital.
The Infant Mental Health Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering developmental psychology. It was established in 1980 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. It is the official journal of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. The editor-in-chief is Paul Spicer. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.673, ranking it 47th out of 73 journals in the category "Psychology, Developmental".
Cognitive Neuropsychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal aimed at promoting the investigation of human cognition that is based on neuropsychological methods including brain pathology, recording, stimulation, brain imaging or the study of developmental deficits.
The Clinical Neuropsychologist is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering clinical neuropsychology. It was founded in 1987 as Clinical Neuropsychologist, obtaining its current name in 1995. It is published eight times per year by Routledge on behalf of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, of which it is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is Yana Suchy. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.807.
The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering neuropsychology. It is the official journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, on whose behalf it is published by Cambridge University Press. The editor-in-chief is Stephen M. Rao. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 3.098, ranking it 62nd out of 142 journals in the category "Psychiatry".
The Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in clinical and experimental neuropsychology. It was established in 1979 as the Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology, obtaining its current name in 1985. It is published ten times per year by Routledge and the editors-in-chief are Lisa Rapport and Julie Suhr. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.853.
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific review journal covering cell and developmental biology. It was established in 1990 as Seminars in Cell Biology, obtaining its current name in 1996, when it incorporated Seminars in Developmental Biology. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is John Davey. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 6.138.
Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering cognitive neurology. It was established in 1988 as Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology & Behavioral Neurology, obtaining its current title in 2003. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and the editor-in-chief is Barry Gordon. It is an official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology.
The Journal of Neuropsychology is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering clinical and research studies across neurology, psychology and psychiatry. It is published by The British Psychological Society. The editors-in-chief is Martin Gareth Edwards.
