State about the Neuropsychological assessment

Neuropsychological assessment provides information concerning the status of brain function across the life span. It does so primarily by testing those functions and abilities may be evaluated in a comprehensive, specialised, or combined manner. The areas typically assessed in a neuropsychological evaluation include the ability to reason and conceptualise; to remember; to speak and understand spoken and written language; to attend to and perceive the environment accurately through the senses of vision, hearing, touch, and smell; to construct objects in two- or three-dimensional space; and to perform skilled, purposive movements. Clinical neuropsychology in particular has the task of identifying in individual patients the level and pattern of disruption of these abilities as a result of brain dysfunction.