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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Neuropsychology - APS500035
Title: Neuropsychologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:written
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Hana Horáková, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D.
doc. MUDr. Martin Vyhnálek, Ph.D.
Annotation -
This is a course in which the neural mechanisms associated with selected aspects of behavioral, cognitive, and affective functions are approached. The course includes a brief introduction (to the extent necessary to understand the phenomena discussed) to neurobiology, neuroanatomy, and cellular mechanisms of neuronal transmission. This course does not replace basic or specialized courses in neurophysiology or cognitive psychology, but aims to link selected elements of behavior to the neural mechanisms underlying them. This course should be an extension and complement to the basic neurophysiology and cognitive psychology courses. <br>
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The aim of the course is to introduce the neural mechanisms that underlie aspects of behaviour, cognition and affective functions. Phylogenetic aspects and animal models will also be presented, with human neurophysiology and neuroanatomy being the focus of the presentation. <br>
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Knowledge acquired: the student understands (has insight into) the basic neural mechanisms influencing behaviour, cognition and emotions. <br>
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Acquired skills: the student can critically interpret the literature in this field, is aware of the possibilities and limitations of the neurophysiological approach. <br>
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Course content: Mechanisms of signal transmission in the nervous system; Functional neuroanatomy; Phylogeny of the nervous system; Molecular mechanisms of memory and learning; Molecular mechanisms of vision; Animal models of neuropsychiatric diseases; Neuronal mechanisms of spatial cognition; Default mode system; Neurobiology of social cognition.
Last update: Nikolai Tomáš, doc. Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (06.10.2025)
Literature -

Required: 

Lezak M, Howieson DB, Bigler ED, Tranel D (2012). Neuropsychological Assessment. 5th ed. New York, NY: Oxford. 

Strauss, E., Sherman, E.M.S. & Spreen, O. (2006). Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, Norms, Commentary. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Uhrová, T, Roth J. (2020): Neuropsychiatry. Maxdorf, Prague  

Recommended: 

Meyers, C.A., & Perry, J.R. (Eds.) (2008). Cognition and Cancer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Groth-Marnat, G. (Ed.) Neuropsychological assessment in clinical practice: a guide to test interpretation and integration. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. 

Snyder, P.J., & Nussbaum, P.D. (2003). Clinical Neuropsychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 

Blumenfeld, H. (2010). Neuroanatomy through clinical cases (2nd ed.). Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates. 

Kolb, B., & Whishaw, I. Q. (2015). Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology (7th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers. 

Kandel, E.R., Schwartz, J.H., & Jessell, T.M. (2000). Principles of Neural Science, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. 

Carew, T.J., (2000). Behavioral Neurobiology. Sinauer Associates Inc publishers. 

Felten, D.L., & Jozefowicz, R.F. (2003). Netter's Atlas of Human Neuroscience. MediMedia USA.  

The list of recommended literature is refined during the course. 

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
 
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