The Feeling of Frustration and the Sense of Loss in the Spoken Statements of People with Brain Dysfunctions – Neuropsychological Mechanisms. Case Studies

Ewa Małgorzata Szepietowska

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The aim of neuropsychological diagnosing of a patient with CNS pathology is, among others, description of his cognitive, emotional, and social difficulties. Patients often report a feeling of frustration and lost giving different reasons for their. They are often recognized by diagnostics and relatives as an indicator of real difficulties, and they determine the direction of (neuro)psychological help. Proper clinical qualification of these complaints in relation to symptoms and in relation to the clinical characteristics of aetiological factors allows to make a correct neuropsychological diagnosis. The article illustrates this issue by descriptions of two people with CNS damage of a different aetiology. In the first case, the expression of anxiety associated with the belief about memory disorders was an element of executive disorders and perseveration, in the second – sense of loss was the result awareness of increasing cognitive impairment.


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neuropsychological diagnosis; complaints; a sense of loss; intoxication of Carbon monoxide (CO); normotensive hydrocephalus

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2018.31.4.293-305
Date of publication: 2019-04-26 10:22:49
Date of submission: 2018-07-26 10:45:50


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