Thesis Supervision in Neuropsychology

Teaching Methods

Tutorial guidance of PhD students, participation in training courses and/or internships related to thesis themes, posters and oral presentations in national and international congresses, writing of papers and thesis chapters.

Learning Outcomes

Objectives:

Promoting the implementation of the thesis project.

 

Competencies:

Adequate planning and management of the research process.

Writing the PhD thesis.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Presentation and discussion of work based upon the following thesis themes:

1. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Mesial Temporal Sclerosis: Contributes of standard and innovative neuropsychological instruments for memory and emotion assessment;

2. Differentiation of memory functioning in vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: A study with Wechsler Memory Scale - 3rd edition (WMS-III);

3. Adaptation and validation studies of the CANTAB-Alzheimer (The Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery for Alzheimer’s disease);

4. Study of the encoding process in persons with schizophrenia;

5. Vision and cognition in early Alzheimer’s Disease: Contribution of new diagnostic tools for new classification criteria (BD/FCT);

6. Functional mapping and neuropsychological assessment for epilepsy surgery;

7. Color constancy neural correlates: A multimodal approach;

8. Heroin-dependent neuropsychological profile: addiction, abstinence by substitution treatment.

Head Lecturer(s)

Mário Manuel Rodrigues Simões

Assessment Methods

Evaluation
Formative evaluation as a result of the above activities; there is not summative evaluation.: 100.0%

Bibliography

A bibliografia é específica a cada tema de projecto de tese de doutoramento.