Exam 18: Neuropsychology

A clinical neuropsychologist is meeting with a patient who has sustained brain damage.To ascertain what functions are working properly and what functions are not,the neuropsychologist will likely ____.

Describe at least three different sources of brain damage.Compare and contrast the neuropsychological consequences that can follow from each,and give specific examples to illustrate your answer.

Marcie has frontotemporal degeneration.If the disease is killing her brain's language-related regions,she will likely experience a condition known as ____.

Disconnection syndrome occurs when various modules in a network ____ and are prevented from ____.

Before Roy can be licensed to practice neuropsychology,he must first complete an internship.His internship will ____.

Lyle,an amnesic patient,thinks that he has met you before."I remember you because of your red hat.And I was your boss at the mayor's office in Cleveland.I was the mayor then,you know.We had many dinners together,and you used to order the Delmonico steaks with onion rings on top." Lyle firmly believes these things are true,yet none of them really happened.Lyle has damaged the ____ of his brain.

When Dennis made breakfast,he poured milk on the counter,then emptied cereal from a box,and finally put a bowl down on top of it all.Dennis has ____.

In cases in which consciousness is impaired due to widespread damage to both sides of the cerebral cortex,what would be the most likely cause?

Samantha is reading a story about a child who cannot understand the location of objects in space and how they relate to one another.Thinking back to her psychology class,Samantha speculates that the boy must have damage to the neural pathways of his ____ system.

As an intern in a hospital,you listen to a conversation between a physician and neuropsychologist discussing the perceptual problems of their patient,Angel.At one point,the physician says,"It's as if he can see the trees but not recognize the forest." From your training,you suspect Angel is experiencing ____.

After an assessment,Dr.Find diagnoses her patient Lily as having a disorder of communication.According to the text,this is a kind of ____.

Joey has a visual agnosia.When he looks at a drawing of a flower,you should expect that he ____.

A patient comes to you,a brilliant neuropsychologist.He speaks with a lot of adjectives and adverbs,and his sentences are florid but make no sense.You also notice that he calls objects in the room by the wrong name.You conclude that this patient has ____.

Bert cannot form new memories,but he is able to accurately recall his childhood memories from before his stroke.Ernie cannot form new memories and often recalls memories that did not happen.Based on this information,it appears that Bert has ____,and Ernie has ____.

A neuropsychologist may perform a lesion analysis to determine what brain functions have been damaged.More specifically,the neuropsychologist will attempt to discover what abilities in a complex mental task have become ____.

Kunita has recently received damage to the corpus callosum and the left occipital lobe of her brain.This damage will most likely cause ____.

What is an important assumption in the field of neuropsychology?

Whitt sounds really strange: "This is the missing one of the rest of the many inside freshens parashim over the one of this is it." He speaks effortlessly and easily but seems to make no sense.What is most likely the problem?

A person's recovery after a cerebrovascular accident (CVA)is least dependent on ____.

Anterograde amnesia is often caused by damage to the ____,whereas Korsakoff's syndrome is caused by damaged to the ____.