Education/Licensure Requirement
The level of education needed to procure a career as a neuropsychologist would include not only a Bachelor's Degree but a Master's Degree (if it is required by the state or place of occupation) and a Doctorate's Degree as well. Subsequently, one has to undergo the GRE (Graduate Record …show more content…
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Tasks, Tools, and Technology
There are many technological avenues that are used throughout one’s career as a neuropsychologist. A few examples of tools include auditory stimulation equipment, desktop computers/ laptops, laser fax machines/ printers/ photocopiers, respiration measurement kits, &c.
Software that tends to be used is analytical/scientific programs, databases, electronic mailing, Microsoft programming, Behavioral Assessment and Research System, &c.
Tasks that are included but not limited to in this field are implementing intervention; behavior therapies; and psychotherapy, taking patients’ former medical history and perform a fully comprehensive analysis on them, “diagnosing and treating conditions involving injury to the central nervous system such as cerebrovascular accidents; neoplasms; infectious or inflammatory diseases; degenerative diseases; head traumas; demyelinating diseases and various forms of dementing illnesses,” and letting any known liabilities in neuro- surgeries be