‘Narrow localizationalism’ in psychiatric neuropsychology

Miller, Laurence

doi:10.1017/s0033291700011727

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“…The long-term utility of clinical neuropsychological approaches to schizophrenia is an empirical issue, of course. However, we do not see many clear-cut conclusions emerging in this literature and, in particular, little support for the “narrow localizationism” that appears to be sought by some investigators (see Miller 1986).…”

Section: Use Of Clinical Neuropsychological Tests In Schizophrenia Re...contrasting

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Response to Serper and Harvey

Strauss¹,

Summerfelt²

1994

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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Serper and Harvey discuss experimental and neuropsychological research on schizophrenia and suggest their integration. They propose that such integration would offer practical and theoretical advantages. Shortcomings of these approaches and of their integration are discussed, within a broader consideration of methodological and conceptual issues in schizophrenia research. The application of experimental methods to study the relationships between brain function and behavior is suggested to be a more productive approach to the study of psychological phenomena in schizophrenia.

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Section: Use Of Clinical Neuropsychological Tests In Schizophrenia Re...contrasting

confidence: 66%

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Strauss¹,

Summerfelt²

1994

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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“…Neuropsychological models will not replace other approaches to the study of personality disorders and social issues, nor should they be prematurely reified; this would be a form of the "narrow localizationism" that Luria (1973) cautioned against when neuropsychologizing is taken to literal and simplistic extremes (see also Kiernan, 1981;Miller, 1986Miller, , 1987).…”

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“…Given the diversity of populations studied, diagn'ostic criteria employed, and choice of measures, it may seem remarkable that any commonality of findings occurs at all, and the general neuropsychological consensus among these studies argues strongly for the veracity of the underlying phenomenon manifesting itself in the findings across groups and procedures. Yet the concept that delinquents as a group are "brain damaged" in the traditional neurological sense is an unsatisfying one, clinically and theoretically, and stems from the narrow localizationist tradition of regarding deficits in test performance as indicative of lesions in the central nervous system (see Kiernan, 1981;Miller, 1986).…”

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Neuropsychological perspectives on delinquency

Miller¹

1988

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…While Luria's insights (and those of his mentor, Vygotsky) were acknowledged in early formulations of cognitive neuropsychiatry (e.g. Miller, 1986), their implications for understanding psychopathology have rarely been examined. Luria's rejection of the ‘narrow localizationism’ that characterized nineteenth- and early twentieth-century clinical neurology goes some way beyond the acknowledgement that there needs to be a cognitive level of analysis of psychopathological experiences running alongside a neural one (see, for example, summaries of the principles of cognitive neuropsychiatry in David, 1993, and Halligan and David, 2001).…”

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Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

Fernyhough

2019

Psychol. Med.

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There is a growing recognition in psychosis research of the importance of hallucinations in modalities other than the auditory. This has focused attention on cognitive and neural processes that might be shared by, and which might contribute distinctly to, hallucinations in different modalities. In this article, I address some issues around the modality-generality of cognitive and neural processes in hallucinations, including the role of perceptual and reality-monitoring systems, top-down and bottom-up processes in relation to the psychological and neural substrates of hallucinations, and the phenomenon of simultaneous multimodal hallucinations of the same entity. I suggest that a functional systems approach, inspired by some neglected aspects of the writings of A. R. Luria, can help us to understand patterns of hallucinatory experience across modalities and across clinical and non-clinical groups. Understanding the interplay between modality-general and modality-specific processes may bear fruit for improved diagnosis and therapeutic approaches to dealing with distressing hallucinations.

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‘Narrow localizationalism’ in psychiatric neuropsychology

Cited by 26 publications

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Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

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