Neurological Lapsus as an Index of Psychic Processes over Developing Brain Activation: A Comprehensive Pre-Adolescent Case Report

Abstract

There is a gap in current neuroscientific understanding regarding psychological disorders. This case report shows how psychic
disorganization can provoke transient motor and language disregulation, as well as disorientation, suggesting a neurological
lapsus in a preadolescent girl (10 years old). The reported episode is not explained by neurocognitive alteration, as her
neuropsychological profile suggests a typical neurodevelopment in attention, speed processing, visuospatial praxia, visual and
verbal declarative memory, working memory, verbal fluency, verbal and visual concept formation, and cognitive flexibility. A
psychological analysis of the preadolescent’s dissociation profile and symptoms evolution has been provided. The reported
uncommon episode, in a still neuromaturational period of life, demonstrates the predominance of psychic organization over
brain activation. Being suggested that body/mind influence can be bilateral, the study of psychodynamics ought to be updated
and incorporated to neurosciences, beyond behavior and cognition.