Neuropsychology studies show that compulsive hoarders have deficits in executive functioning, attention, memory, organization and emotional regulation.

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The field of neuropsychology -- the applied form of neuroscience -- is now offering an emerging consciousness about the brain's inner workings.

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D. in neuropsychology who has worked on performance training with PGA Tour pros, elite athletes from football and baseball, Navy SEALs and NASA astronauts.

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In her 60s, she went to graduate school and studied neuropsychology.

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That means people with depression are not necessarily destined to get dementia, said Adam Brickman, assistant professor of neuropsychology at Columbia University Medical Center, who did not conduct this study.

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At the University of Konstanz in Germany, neuropsychology professor Thomas Elbert uses plasticity-based therapy with stroke patients who have lost the use of a limb or their ability to speak.

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So it is unlikely that the research, published in the journal Neuropsychology, will radically change the way that obstetricians and paediatricians approach delivery of premature babies, and their care in the first hours after birth.

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"We know that if you take away naps for preschoolers, and then give them challenging tasks, they're grumpier, " said lead study author Dean Beebe, director of the neuropsychology program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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