Neuropsychological Assessment Contributions in Autism Diagnosis

Amanda Lima Rubim, Ana Flávia Lima Teles da Hora and Alexia Lima Lobato
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Alexia Lima Lobato: Assessment, Research and Intervention on Autism Spectrum Disorder Laboratory, CEUMA University, Brazil

Open Access Journal of Neurology & Neurosurgery, 2020, vol. 13, issue 2, 31-33

Abstract: The Autism Spectrum Disorder is characterized by deficits on social interaction and communication and by the presence of restrict repertoire of behaviors, activities and interests. The comprehension about this neurodevelopment disorder remains complex nowadays, owing to its unknown etiology. Neuropsychological Assessment provides a deep analysis of cognitive functioning in people with such diagnosis, by being an auxiliary tool in the process of investigation, confirming or not the ASD diagnosis with higher precision. This branch of neuropsychological science contributes a lot to assertive interventions and therapeutic indications, by studying the interaction of brain functioning and human behavior. This study will contribute by presenting Brazilian publications that demonstrate the neuropsychological assessment for the differential diagnosis of ASD. It will be discussed and summarized some of this tool contributions at the national level, indicating the most used tests in Brazilian scenario. It is emphasized that neuropsychological evaluation contributes significatively due to identification of impairments on cognitive functions that are very important for human development.

Keywords: Open Access Journal of Neurology; Journal of Neurology & Neurosurgery; Open Access Journal; juniper publishers; neurology open access journals; journal of neurology; neurology indexed journals; neurology scholarly journals; journal of neurology; neurology journals impact factor; juniper publishers reivew (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.19080/OAJNN.2020.13.555857

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