Exam 18: Neuropsychology

Early detection of Alzheimer's disease and dementia is critical to sustaining a person's quality of life.Which technique is least likely to be used for this purpose?

The National Football League is trying to minimize the number of brain traumas athletes suffer in sports concussions by providing stricter guidelines and better helmets.These types of injuries can lead to ____,characterized by a progressive cognitive decline that worsen after the brain injury.

As a clinical neuropsychologist,Umberto often administers many different neuropsychological assessments for each patient for a number of reasons.The least likely reason for his approach is to ____.

Neuropsychological assessments that are uniquely tailored to a patient are helpful because they ____.

A neuropsychologist wants to determine what specific psychological functions are affected by damage to a specific brain area in a group of patients.The neuropsychologist will likely perform a(n)____.

People with Broca's aphasia have difficulties with language ____,whereas people with Wernicke's aphasia have difficulties with language ____.

Marta is prone to a condition known as confabulation.That means that Marta ____.

Noreen experiences both anterograde amnesia and confabulations.These are key symptoms that indicate Noreen suffers from ____.

After a car accident,Astor is in a coma and Cody is in a persistent vegetative state.If the same brain area is implicated in each of their situations,it would most likely be the ____.

Damage to the "what" perceptual systems may result in the experience of ____.

Chris is hit in the head by a misguided lawn dart.Chris may have suffered brain damage due to ____.

Zayrina often gets frustrated when she speaks.Her words are halting,and she has trouble speaking about abstract ideas such as love or justice.Based on this,you can conclude that Zayrina has sustained damage to her ____.

At a bookstore,Dusty asks the sales associate for recommendations on books that deal with disorders in language comprehension and speech production.What book should the sales associate recommend?

Freddy suffered from a speech disorder for many years.After he dies,the doctor performs an autopsy and finds an area of damage in his brain that explains the occurrence of his disorder.This damage is referred to as ____.

Traumatic brain injury is particularly damaging because the brain is not firmly attached to the skull.Rather,it floats in a bath of ____.Therefore,head trauma causes the brain to move,which can ____.

Kyra's husband asked her to pound a nail into the wall.Kyra grabbed a hammer by the head and twirled it in circles."How come this isn't working right?" she asked.Kyra has ____.

Nadia studies patients who have trouble speaking after damage to the left frontal lobe.She wants to determine how functions are impaired by damage in this area.Nadia will likely perform ____.

Ruth works in a hospital.She meets with patients who have experienced cerebrovascular accidents and traumatic brain injuries.Often Ruth will run a test battery to determine the psychological damage that has been sustained.Ruth must be a(n)____ neuropsychologist.

The local theater company is producing a stage play of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.It is the story of a man who could not recognize his wife's face and therefore believed that her head was his hat.The director wanted to be sure that she was accurately portraying the man's struggle with ____.

If a person damages any part of the system that interprets information brought in through the body's senses,that person would experience ____.