Dr Judith Guedalia

1. The Case of the Soldier Who Couldn't Whisper
(Matching tags: WNL,Jewish Press,Lochesh,Whisper,Dystonia,Within-Normal-Limits,Neuropsycholog,Aphoniay,Psychosis)

They were afraid, afraid for him and afraid for themselves.  He, let's call him Lochesh (the Hebrew word for whisper) could not whisper.  When they are out on dangerous missions, their faces painted in ...

2. The Use of Luria's Method for the Neurobehavioral Assessment of Encephalopathy in an Adolescent: Application in a Rehabilitation Setting
(Matching tags: Neuropsychology,Encephalopathy)

Abstract Standardized neuropsychological test batteries demonstrate their greatest reliability and validity in patients with focal, well-defined neurologic disease. In these patients, the test profiles ...

3. Who can benefit from a neuropsychological examination?
(Matching tags: Neuropsychological evaluation,Psychological Evaluation,Developmental Evaluation,Neuropsychological Examination)

It can benefit individuals with: Traumatic injury, including brain injury and concussion, post-concussion syndrome, including the synergistic effect of multiple concussions Seizure disorders, such as ...

4. Tissue, I hardly know you
(Matching tags: Clinical Neuropsychologists,Executive Functions,Lacrimation,Special Abilities,Psychology)

This play on words was a favorite of Mr. Simon Solomon, Z'L, my Chumash -Torah- teacher during my elementary school years; I guess with today's sensitivity to abuse, he would never have said it at all! ...

5. EMDR ונפגעי טרור: חלק ב
(Matching tags: Dual Attention Elements,EMDR Intervention,Cognitive Neuropsychological,EMDR,Limbic System,Negative Cognition,DESENSITIZATION,SUDS,Body Scan,Normalization,Positive Cognition)

SCREENING When the patient is showing dissociative responses to the trauma, hysterical paralysis, fugue-like state, we don't attempt EMDR.  As the Patients are usually in the ER for many many hours (5-8) ...

6. We lost our general on the battlefield
(Matching tags: Temunat Matzav,Neuropsychologist,MCI,Dr. David Appelbaum,Mass Casualty Incident,Terrorist Activity,Pigua)

Tuesday September 9, 2003 6:00 pm I am writing this to give you a ‘temunat matzav', a picture of the ‘situation'.  The ‘Matzav' in Israel vis a vis ‘them and us'. I guess life here is never either/or.  ...

7. Confusing and Converting Symptoms
(Matching tags: Psychosis,Disorder In Reading,Hysterical Paralysis,Conversion Disorder,Disengagement,Jewish Press,Gush Katif,Dyslexia,Pathology,Neuropsychological Emergency,Paralysis)

... ‘suffering' from an odd form of Dyslexia.  Okay, I thought, that isn't so unusual here, the Neuropsychology Unit I head at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.  To paraphrase the words of the Hagada, ...

8. Consultation Across A Seemingly Great Divide.
(Matching tags: Madressa,Neuropsychology,Jewish Press,Pediatric Oncology)

There was a request from both the nurses and social workers of Pediatric Oncology, to see a patient.  The patient was a 9 year old girl but the person "we REALLY need help with, is the brother!"

9. Coming to Israel for the Year
(Matching tags: Aliya,Special Education Curriculum,Sherut HaPsychologi Chinuch,Mercaz LeHitpatchot HaYeled,Special-needs,Neuropsychology)

Coming to Israel for the Year/Aliya with a ‘Special-needs' family member? Chezi Goldberg z'l --H'YD- May Gd Avenge his blood- wrote about coming on Aliya with children and teens, I am sure, had he lived ...