Estudo sobre os mecanismos neuropsicológicos da aprendizagem e da memória correlacionados às estratégias da psicoterapia cognitivo-comportamental utilizadas no tratamento de um caso de fobia específica

Abstract

This study tries an articulation referring to the neuropsycologic mechanisms of learning and memory and from the strategic behavioral cognitive therapy used to treat specific kinds of phobia. In this case, we look on knowledge about how the neuroscience can contribute to the process of comprehension of the effects produced by the psychotherapy and different methods of psychotherapy intervention over brain structures listed to learning and memory. Learning is a process from which people can have access to a very large different and diverse ways of knowledge. On the other hand, memory is the capacity of retraining of all what has been learned. The specific phobia is a confusion or troubled memory causes which brings several limitations on every day tasks of patients. The behavioral cognitive therapy is a kind of short therapy which works with cognition, feelings and behaviors, offering to patients new knowledge so that they can have a better life condition. It was used a study of a kind of specific phobia in order to demonstrate links of function of central nervous system and the strategic of behavioral cognitive therapy which can make possible new knowledge and memories.