Psychological Assessment of Brain Damage

Abstract

SINCE THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) plays amajor, if not overriding, role in the acquisition of behaviors in humans, it is not surprising that behavioral scientists have sought a cause-effect relationship between CNS anomalies and deviant behavior.Such relationships have not been sought only by behavioral scientists, but by members of the medical community as well.Most of the research in this area has been concerned with damage t o the brain and to measurable behaviors which are demonstrably related t o such cerebral pathology.The diagnosis of brain damage has remained a most controversial aspect of the brain-behavior problem.Refined medical techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG) and pneumoencephalography (PEG) have been generally disappointment as diagnostic tools, and the clinical application of most psychological measures has also been equivocal in the search for reliable diagnostic instruments.That minimal brain damage* exists as an entity is easily demonstrable.Whether the entity is hypothetical or factual forms the basis for this presentation.The psychological assess- ment of brain damage has been one avenue of approach in the search for the elusive etiology of learning disabilities.There has been a marked trend to use interchangeably the medical fact of *For 1,000 available terms, see: E. Fry, "Do-It-Yourself Terminology

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