Neurocognition concerns the cognitive functions as closely linked to the function of particular areas, neural pathways, or cortical networks in the brain, ultimately served by the substrate of the brain's neurological matrix (i.e. at the cellular and molecular level). Therefore, their understanding is closely linked to the practice of neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience, two disciplines that broadly seek to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to cognition and behaviour. Adding the prefix "neuro-" to the word "cognitive" could be considered as an example of pleonasm because, analogous to expressions like "burning fire" and "black darkness," the prefix "neuro-" arguably adds no further useful information to the term "cognitive". In the field of clinical neurology, clinicians often continue using the simpler term "cognitive", possibly due to there being historically a relative paucity of evidence for human cognitive processes that do not involve the nervous system . However, intense recent interest in functional neurological disorders (FND) in the context of 'medically unexplained symptoms' has led to widespread international questioning of this assertion .
Neurocognitive functions are cognitive functions closely linked to the function of particular areas, neural pathways, or cortical networks in the brain, ultimately served by the substrate of the brain's neurological matrix (i.e. at the cellular and molecular level). Therefore, their understanding is closely linked to the practice of neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience, two disciplines that broadly seek to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to cognition and behaviour. Adding the prefix "neuro-" to the word "cognitive" could be considered as an example of pleonasm because, analogous to expressions like "burning fire" and "black darkness," the prefix "neuro-" arguably adds no further useful information to the term "cognitive". In the field of clinical neurology, clinicians often continue using the simpler term "cognitive", due to the absence of evidence for human cognitive processes that do not involve the nervous system .
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. However, intense recent interest in functional neurological disorders (FND) in the context of 'medically unexplained symptoms' has led to widespread international questioning of this assertion