Q&A: Neuropsychology and its role in cancer care
A clinical neuropsychologist is an expert in identifying, diagnosing and treating changes in a person's cognitive function (ability to think), personality, behavior and mood.
While brain tumor identification and localization are done primarily with MRI, the picture of the brain that's generated does not tell us about the functional impact of the lesion (such as a brain tumor) on a person's cognition, behavior and mood. (...