Glossary of Neuropsychology

* Stereotypies: These are repetitive or ritualized movements, postures or voices without a specific purpose. Stereotypies can be simple movements such as balancing the body, or complexes such as self-strokes, crossed and uncrossed legs or walking on the site. * Social Interviews: It is the manifestation through which the subsequent social influence that every individual receives is summoned. * Cognitive deficit: It is a term used to describe any feature that acts as a barrier to the cognitive process.

* Pathognomonic: Characteristic symptoms that define an illness. *  Psychometric Test: They are a objective measurement and categorized that permits descriptions and comparisons between people or the same person with differents moments of vital cycle. * Etiopathogenesis: Origin and causes about illness development. 

Symbolic Play Symbolic play is the ability of children to use objects, actions or ideas to represent other objects, actions, or ideas as play. A child may push a block around the floor as a car or put it to his ear as a cell phone Echolalia The word echolalia meaning speech. This refers to the unsolicited repeating of the same words or phrases that someone else has said. It’s automatic and effortless almost a type of imitation similar to what parrots do. Acquired Language is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language  as well as to produce and use words  and sentences  to communicate. Language acquisition is one of the quintessential human traits

* Genetics: Biological part that studies the genes and mechanism that regulate the transmission of hereditary character. * Comorbidity: Evidence of the existence of one or more disorders as well as illness or primary disorder. Body effects about these disorders or illness additional. * Physiology: Science that studies the organic being functions.

* Inhibitory Control: Human ability to  dominate impulsive answers (automatic) and generate answers mediated attention and reasoning. * Seratonin: Neurotransmitter indolamine. Biomolecule that sends information through sinapsis between neurons and intervenes in  contraction smooth  muscle,  regulation of sleep and contributes in happiness. * Dopamine :Neurotransmitter phenylethylamine - catecholamine. Intervenes: behaviour, cognition, motor activity, motivation, regulation of  sleep, mood, attention and learnig.

 School failure is a process where a student slips farther and farther behind his peers and gradually disconnects from the educational system.

Inattention can be simply put as a lack of attention or a reduced attention span. Attention can be defined as the concentration of mental powers upon an object