Clinical Neuropsychologists

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Clinical Neuropsychologist, Pediatric Clinical Neuropsychologist, Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Staff Psychologist

What they do:
Assess and diagnose patients with neurobehavioral problems related to acquired or developmental disorders of the nervous system, such as neurodegenerative disorders, traumatic brain injury, seizure disorders, and learning disabilities. Recommend treatment after diagnosis, such as therapy, medication, or surgery. Assist with evaluation before and after neurosurgical procedures, such as deep brain stimulation.
On the job, you would:
  • Interview patients to obtain comprehensive medical histories.
  • Write or prepare detailed clinical neuropsychological reports, using data from psychological or neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct observations, or interviews.
  • Conduct neuropsychological evaluations such as assessments of intelligence, academic ability, attention, concentration, sensorimotor function, language, learning, and memory.

Knowledge

Math and Science

  • psychology
  • biology

Health

  • therapy and counseling
  • medicine and dentistry

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • understanding people's reactions
  • looking for ways to help people

Abilities

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say
  • read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • use rules to solve problems

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted

Visual Understanding

  • see hidden patterns

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Concern for Others
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Dependability

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Analytical or scientific software

  • IBM SPSS Statistics Hot Technology
  • Statistical software

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology

Medical software

  • Patient electronic medical record EMR software
  • The Tova Company Test of Variables of Attention

Education

Education: (rated 5 of 5)
post-doctoral training
usually needed

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