Neuropsychological assessment at forensic psychological assessment of decision making capacity

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Abstract

Relevance of the research consists in consideration the forensic neuropsychological assessment in Russia. The new problem of use of neuropsychological methods in complex forensic psychological and psychiatric examination and forensic psychiatric examination is studied. The article presents the results of neuropsychological assessment of the persons, who could not understand the meaning of their actions, regulate and control them at the time of the transaction. The persons, who could not understand the meaning of their actions, regulate and control them at the time of the transaction, characterized by the presence of a decrease of the ability to control one's actions and the of spatial functions, the neuropsychological syndrome of memory and consciousness. The persons who were able to make decisions at the time of the transaction, such features were less. The importance of the use of neuropsychological methods in forensic examination was established.

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Keywords: complex forensic psychological and psychiatric examination, forensic psychiatric examination, capacity, neuropsychological assessment, diminished capacity.

Journal rubric: Forensic and Clinical Psychology in Legal Context

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2018080411

For citation: Safuanov F.S., Perepravina J.O., Chernenkov A.D. Neuropsychological assessment at forensic psychological assessment of decision making capacity [Elektronnyi resurs]. Psikhologiya i pravo = Psychology and Law, 2018. Vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 115–127. DOI: 10.17759/psylaw.2018080411. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Farit S. Safuanov, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Head of Chair of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Department of Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Head of the Laboratory of Psychology, Federal Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Addiction of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-7956, e-mail: safuanovf@rambler.ru

Julia O. Perepravina, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Lecturer, Department of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Faculty of Legal Psychology, Moscow University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5702-7499, e-mail: yuliaperepravina@gmail.com

Artem D. Chernenkov, Junior Researcher of Laboratory of psychology, National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Addiction of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: artem.chernenkov@mail.ru

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