Higher mental functions are complex mental processes which result from human interaction with the outside world as a whole, are socially conditioned and bear the imprint of the cultural and historical environment. The higher mental functions include thinking, speech, writing, counting, memory, voluntary movements and perception processes. The higher mental functions indicate the proper state of mental health of the person undergoing examination.
When conducting a psychological examination, it is important to establish whether all the higher mental functions of the subject are preserved, whether the interviewed person is able to adequately perceive, remember, analyze and reproduce information about the events that happen to him in life. When examining minor children, the correspondence of the mental development of the child to age norms, the presence or absence of signs of a lag in mental development not associated with a mental illness, as well as other anomalies of mental development of a non-illness nature are established. In order to ensure the reliability of the results of psychological examination, it is necessary to investigate the higher mental functions in the elderly, since with age the preservation of these functions may be impaired.
When conducting a higher mental functions examination at the Forensic expert kollegium, as part of a psychological examination, tests for suggestibility and a tendency to fantasize are also carried out, as a result of which the ability of the interviewed person to reliably and impartially report information about the facts of life, in which the person was directly involved, is assessed.
When conducting a forensic psychological examination or when conducting a pre-trial study, the conclusion on which is supposed to be submitted to the preliminary investigation bodies or to the court, the study of higher mental functions is mandatory.
Psychological studies, including studies of higher mental functions, are carried out at the Forensic expert kollegium in special premises at: Minsk, Yakubava St., 80, entrance from the side of the bike path (Svisloch river), 15th floor.
You can order a special psychological study, including a polygraph examination at the Forensic expert kollegium at: Minsk, Zhukovskaga St., 11A, 4th floor
or by phone +375 (17) 317 04 71; +375 (17) 317 04 72; +375 (17) 317 04 73; +375 (17) 317 04 74; +375 (17) 317 04 76; ; +375 (29) 109 60 11; +375 (29) 397 31 71; +375 (44) 588 60 11
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