Good afternoon, everyone.

It's Dr. Niagara again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, thank you to all of our followers, both here in the United States and in different parts of the globe.

We're still working on trying to find a way to connect the time zones, you know, with Australia and New Zealand

on that side of the world, but I think we'll figure that out at some point.

And the sincere appreciation for people who've come from very far away to have me do a

neurocegeval on them, it's a's a great experience and i appreciate your confidence um

in our program and what we're trying to do uh there's so many different topics and so many

different areas um and a borderline is probably one of the most popular ones, one of the areas that I really like to focus on.

But, you know, testing, I bring that up almost every episode and the importance of getting a full eval.

I think prior to starting treatment, whether that's

medication or psychotherapy.

But today, I'm going to switch to a topic that's pretty specific to my position or profession

as a neuropsychologist.

And I'm going to talk about what are called the neurocognitive

disorders now this is where I interact a lot with psychiatric prescribers neurologists and primary care

and there's there's several, I made notes for this one.

I made, there's several different neurocognitive disorders.

And they're really differentiated into mild neurocognitive disorder or major neurocognitive disorder. So mild cognitive disorder,

it doesn't interfere totally with the capacity for independent living. Whereas major neurocognitive disorder, and that, you know, that's where you'll see much

more impairment.

And the different types of neurocognitive disorders, and I think people will use a lot of

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