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Welcome to Interactive Neuropsychology Textbook (beta mode)
This entire site is still in beta mode, which is to say that it might be full of holes, editing errors and so forth. Please proceed with caution and a critiquing gaze!
The core components of clinical neuropsychological practice involve the clinician sewing together both qualitative and quantitative information about the individual's cognitive abilities and drawing conclusions about a given referral question (often a diagnostic question). With this in mind, this textbook aims to synthesise some of the sources of information utilised by clinicians to aid in the quick lookup of relevant information.
What is in the Interactive Neuropsychology Textbook (INT)?
Hopefully lots of stuff, but currently the following planned sections to organise the content:
- Cognitive Abilities (i.e., small divisions of skills and capacities in human behaviour, and will include broader groupings of domains)
- Normed Tasks (i.e., inclusive of any tasks which have norms existing for them)
- Behaviours and Traits (i.e., features of an individual which may be utilised to aid in answering the referral question)
- Conditions (i.e., known disorders, diseases and syndromes which are relevant to clinical neuropsychology)
- Foundational Knowledge (i.e., topics such as neuroanatomy, neurodevelopment, neuroradiology, and history)
- Theory and Practice - (i.e., pages outlining some of the issues and considerations in neuropsychology and its clinical practice)
(e.g., the medical model, considerations when using normed tasks). - Clinical Neuropsychology Skills - (i.e., pages dedicated to the practical aspects of practicing clinical neuropsychology)
(e.g., neuropsychological report, AHPRA Requirements for Clinical Neuropsychologists).
Anyone is welcome to make an account and view the pages of the INT! In the future, you will also be welcome to contribute to the site making both minor edits and adding entire pages if you so desire!
Please feel welcome to create an account!If you're interested in my dreams, check out the about page, its is a bit ambitious, but it keeps me motivated.
What's currently in progress?
Currently, we need to come up with a standardised structure for each page type. E.g. for a Condition do we include diagnostic criteria, cognitive profile etc as standard headings for those pages?
What happened to Study Notes?
Originally, this site was intended to include a hidden section for students studying in the Masters of Clinical Neuropsychology at Macquarie University - this isn't a feasible option permissions-wise on MediaWiki (at least not in a way that preserves the copyright of university course material).
So, there is now a sister wiki for this material that will be available to anyone who verifies their enrolment. Please check it out when it becomes available.
(This section is now defunct and will shortly migrate) What is the structure and point of Study Notes?
The idea of this wing of the website is to provide a link between the content covered in the coursework components of a given cohort of students studying clinical neuropsychology to the relevant pages on the topics in the wiki. These pages are restricted to students who provide a valid identification of their enrolment in the course. This restriction is because although the intent is to uphold standards regarding non-plagiarism, there is a sense of wanting to keep the cohort's learning experience all together as one and somewhat private to that institution.
For example, the first version is:
2023 Cohort of Macquarie University's Masters of Clinical Neuropsychology
Why would I want this type of Study Note to INT linkage?
Our courses contain so much rich information that would be great to have available at the click of a button! The reality is though, often study notes get written and then relegated to the deep abyss of a pile of notebooks, a cupboard or the depths of folders on our individual computers. Even the use of shared folders in private cloud drives can lead to the creation of problems such as outdated resources and organisation systems that are difficult to make sense of navigating.
So, this presents a solution - the cohort pages are for structuring information as we learn it, and the content pages are part of the broader INT, accessible to everyone, and able to be contributed to by everyone in real time. That way, when you want to study or look up something from a course, you can navigate to it via the course pages, and continue organically to explore related concepts across the broader INT!
It also enables content pages to be updated in real time to provide richer study notes than otherwise would have existed on the topic. Wiki's preserve histories of changes too, so if the changes don't make sense in years to come, you can look and see how the content changed over time and why!
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