Neuropsychology Training Exam Questions And 100% Correct Answers.
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Neuropsychology
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Neuropsychology
An infraction is a - Answer Region of dead tissue
A clot or other plug that is brought through the blood to a point where it blocks a smaller blood vessel is called an _____. - Answer embolism
Masses of enlarged and tortuous cortical vessels that are supplied by one or more large arteri...
Neuropsychology Training Exam
Questions And 100% Correct Answers.
An infraction is a - Answer Region of dead tissue
A clot or other plug that is brought through the blood to a point where it blocks a smaller blood vessel is
called an _____. - Answer embolism
Masses of enlarged and tortuous cortical vessels that are supplied by one or more large arteries are
called: - Answer angiomas
A female patient experienced constriction of blood vessels (vasospasm) leading to impaired sensory
function. Which disorder did the patient most likely suffer - Answer Migraine stroke
A ____ is a massive bleeding into the substance of the brain that is most often caused by hypertension -
Answer cerebral hemorrhage
There are a variety of treatments for ischemia utilized to maximize neurological damage. What is not a
treatment? Calcium channel blockers, neurosurgery, tiussue plasminogen activator tPA, vasodilators -
Answer Neurosurgery
An individual who sustains a traumatic brain injury will most likely develop a contusion at the point of
impact, termed at - Answer coup
You are using the Glasgow coma scale to assess the coma status of a patient who sustained a traumatic
brain injury, which rating is indicative of a moderate injury - Answer 9 to 12
Automatisms and feelings of déjà vu are commonly found in individuals with _____. - Answer epilepsy
,Brain tumors referred to as "encapsulated" are characterized by which of the following? - Answer The
tumor has not infiltrated the healthy brain tissue.
Slow, involuntary facial movements that often occur with long tee, treatment with antipsychotic drugs
are called - Answer Tardive dyskinesia
Brown-Sequard Syndrome is indicative of - Answer Unilateral spinal cord damage
Headaches associated with hypertension are most often located in - Answer The occipital lobe
A woman is experiencing fever and low blood pressure with vertigo and nausea. Her physician schedules
several tests because he suspects a secondary CNS infection. Which would be included in the diagnostic
work up - Answer An examination of the cerebrospinal fluid
A disorder characterized by rapid onset fatigue and muscle weakness as a result of diminished
acetylcholine receptors is called - Answer
You are working with a neurologist and are preparing to conduct an evaluation on a patient, which of
these is not likely to be part of the initial history taking - Answer You'll administer an fMRI scan to
examine prefrontal cortex activation
Which is not one of the tests that can be administered to assess the integrity of somatosensory function
- Answer Visual object identification
While there are similarities between open head brain injury and closed head injuries, which of these is
more consistent with close head injury - Answer Axonal shearing
The accumulation of tau protein has been associated with the development of the disorder - Answer
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
A patient is brought to the emergency department following a fall at a construction site. The EMT report
that he sustained approximately 2 hours post traumatic amnesia but has been fairly responsive to
, questions. Additionally the patient GCS score was a 9. Based on this information you determine that the
patient likely has - Answer A moderate traumatic brain injury
__ is the result of multiple concussions or brain trauma causing permanent damage symptoms as seen in
college and professional football players - Answer Focal hand dystonia
Following limb amputations the original map of the missing limb has been found to - Answer become
relocated to other body regions
What is the development of persistent seizure activity after repeated exposure to an initially
subconvulsant stimulus - Answer Experience dependent plasticity
SSRI selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors like ___ stimulate changes in cortical and subcortical circuits
that may assist in functional recovery of an injured brain - Answer Prozac
What would be a case of complete recovery rather than compensation - Answer A patient with post
trauma head injury who no longer demonstrated sensitivity to bright lights, numbness of the body or
speech difficulty
Among the changes that take place following a stroke, which is the last to appear? - Answer
inflammation
According to Teuber's research with wounded war veterans, which type of deficit shows the least
recovery? - Answer somatosensory
For young patients in Blakemore and Falconer's paired-associates study of 86 temporal-lobectomy
patients, deficits lasted for how long? - Answer 2-3 years
How do the motions of patients who have had strokes generally compare with the motions of control
subjects - Answer The patients who have had strokes activate much larger areas of the cortex
Overall, recovery from brain damage seems less likely if the patient is _____. - Answer elderly
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