Abstract

NAVARRO MELENDRO, ANA MARÍA  and  RESTREPO IBIZA, ANDREA PATRICIA. CONSECUENCIAS NEUROPSICOLÓGICAS DE LA PARÁLISIS CEREBRAL ESTUDIO DE CASO. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2005, vol.4, n.1, pp.107-115. ISSN 1657-9267.

Cerebral Palsy is defined as a movement alteration result of a non progressive damage witch is permanent in an encephalon that has not acquired its final maturation. Patients that suffer cerebral palsy present learning disabilities, that varies between being completely normal to severe as a consequence of memory, gnosis, praxis, perceptive and language impairments. Nevertheless the consequences of this disease are not always predictable. This paper pretends to make a description of the cognitive and behavioral deficits that overcomes along with the manifestation of the cerebral palsy and its possible treatment. We used a complete neuropsychological battery to evaluate a 7 years old patient who was diagnosed of cerebral palsy and spastic diplegia finding some cognitive impairment in fields such as mnesic, gnosic and attention processes.

Keywords : Cerebral palsy; spastic diplegia; neuropsychological evaluation; memory failures; integrative agnosia; attention; treatment.

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