Question 1

Desmond is suffering from a neuropsychological disorder. The effects of this disorder are gradual, progressive, and irreversible. From this information, you can deduce that Desmond suffers from

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Dementia is characterized by gradual, progressive, and irreversible cognitive decline, which matches the description of Desmond's condition.

Question 2

Define the following terms as they relate to symptoms of various neurological conditions: alexia without agraphia, anterograde amnesia, confabulation, anosognosia, Capgras syndrome, and simultanagnosia.

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Question 3

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.

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Question 4

A patient comes to a doctor's office complaining of memory difficulty. List three possible reasons for the patient's memory problem. Compare and contrast the possibilities you choose.

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Question 5

Patients who suffer from vascular dementia have symptoms that result from

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Vascular dementia is caused by reduced blood flow to the brain, often due to strokes or other conditions that affect blood vessels.

Question 6

Wilhelm had a neurodegenerative disorder that caused memory loss. After he died, an autopsy was performed. This showed an excessive amount of amyloid plaques and tangles in his brain. The best diagnosis is that Wilhelm suffered from

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The presence of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain is characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, a common neurodegenerative disorder associated with memory loss.

Question 7

What is meant by the " what" versus " where " systems in visual perceptual processing? Name and explain an example of a neuropsychological syndrome caused by damage to the what system and a neuropsychological syndrome caused by damage to the where system.

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Question 8

Early detection of Alzheimer's disease and dementia is critical to sustaining a person's quality of life. Such early detection tests may include all of the following except

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The Wada test is used to assess language and memory functions in one hemisphere of the brain, typically before epilepsy surgery, and is not used for early detection of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Question 9

Schmuel looks at a camera and says "That's a thing used to take pictures." When he holds it, he still cannot name it. When asked, "What do you call those objects people hold and then push a button to take a snapshot?" he says, "Well, it's the same as that thing you just showed me." Schmuel has a condition known as

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Anomia is a condition characterized by difficulty in finding or recalling words, which seems to be the case with Schmuel. He can recognize the camera as a thing used to take pictures, but he cannot name it. When asked to name it, he describes it as "the same as that thing you just showed me," indicating a difficulty in retrieval of the appropriate word, which is consistent with anomia. Visual agnosia is a condition characterized by difficulty in recognizing objects despite intact sensory function, which does not seem to be the case with Schmuel since he can recognize the camera. Simultanagnosia is a condition characterized by difficulty in perceiving multiple objects at the same time, which is not evident in the scenario. Prosopagnosia is a condition characterized by difficulty in recognizing faces, which is not relevant to the scenario.

Quiz 16: Neuropsychology