Neuropsychologists

Neuropsychologists explore the relationships between brain systems and behavior. For example, neuropsychologists may study the way the brain creates and stores memories, or how various diseases and injuries of the brain affect emotion, perception, and behavior. Neuropsychologists frequently help design tasks to study normal brain functions with new imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI).

Neuropsychologists also assess and treat people. With the dramatic increase in the number of survivors of traumatic brain injury over the last 30 years, neuropsychologists are working with health teams to help brain-injured people resume productive lives.

For further information regarding neuropsychology you can visit these websites.
http://www.neuropsychologycentral.com
http://www.montana.edu/wwwpy/Careers/Neuropsychology.htm

For a sample program in neuropsychology you can visit this website.
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/psych/neuro/

This is merely a sample program for this specialty. We are in no way endorsing this particular college or program.

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Education Directorate & the Office of Public Communications. (1998). Psychology/Careers for the twenty-first century. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.