ABSTRACT
Neuropsychology is the application of psychological principles to the understanding and rehabilitation of brain damage. In recent years the principles being applied have been predominantly those originating from cognitive psychology. This application has been enormously successful, leading to the rapid development of neuropsychology as a leading specialty within clinical psychology (and it may become the first clinical specialty to branch out on its own-there are now divisions of neuropsychology in both the United Kingdom and the United States, with formal specialist training schemes in existence in the latter). At the same time, the ability of neuropsychological evidence to help resolve empirical issues has led to the approach becoming central to mainstream cognitive psychology.
