Diagnoses
Treatment
History
Odds and Ends
Etiology
100
This disorder is characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning.
What is Intellectual deficit disorder?
100
This class of medications are most frequently used to treat ADHD
What are stimulants?
100
In the past this DSM-5-TR disorder was called dyslexia.
What is a Specific Learning Disability that involves reading?
100
Alzheimer's Disease is characterized mainly by the loss of this cognitive function.
What is memory?
100
Trisome 21 is the cause of this syndrome
What is Down Syndrome?
200
This disorder is characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development,
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)?
200
This treatment approach based on operant conditioning is abbreviated as ABA and has been used in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
200
In the past this disorder was called acalculia?
What is a Specific Learning Disability that involves arithmetic or math?
200
Facial agnosia is an inability to recognize familiar faces, This is another term for this condition.
What is facial blindness?
200
The risk for this disorder is greatly increased if the mother smokes.
What is ADHD?
300
These DSM-5-TR disorders are characterized by academic problems in reading, mathematics, or writing (Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia.
What are specific learning disorders?
300
Severe Intellectual Disability is treated similar to Autism Spectrum Disorder. Mild Intellectual Disability, however, is treated similar to these kinds of disorders.
What are Learning Disorders?
300
In the early 1900's his psychologist introduced the use of the term "Moron", as a classification for what is now called an Intellectual Disability. In 1912 he wrote a book entitled The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness>
Who is Henry H. Goddard?
300
This gender is most likely to received and autism spectrum disorder diagnosis.
What are males?
300
What percent of the population has an intellectual disability>
What is 1% to 3%? (any answer between these two numbers is acceptable)
400
This disorder is characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts,
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
400
This medication has been shown to be effective at times to help improve handwriting in ADHD children.
What is Ritalin (Methylphenidate)?
400
This French psychologist is usually credited with devising the first practical IQ test.
Who is Alfred Binet?
400
This movement is a Human Rights/Civil Right Movement that believed that people with brain-based disabilities such as autism, intellectual & developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, etc.), should be accepted and included in society just like neurotypical people.
What is the Neurodiversity Movement?
400
The age of this parent appear to be a major factor in the expression of Down Syndrome/
Who is the mother?
500
This disorder is characterized by significant cognitive decline from a previous level of performance in one or more cognitive domains including complex attention, executive function, learning and memory, language, perceptual-motor, or social cognition.
What is Major Neurocognitive Disorder?
500
A nasal spray using this "love hormone" is currently being researched to see if it can help people with Autism Spectrum Disorder become more social.
What is Oxytocin?
500
This is the nickname for Federal law that banned the term "mental retardation" from federal use.
What is Rosa's Law?
500
These odd movements and gestures are usually seen in Huntington's Chorea.
What are Choreiform Movements?
500
This disorder is usually referred to by its three letter abbreviation. It results in Intellectual Disability Disorder and is caused by the body's inability to break down phenylalanine, which is found in some foods such as Diet Coke
What is PKU (Phenylketonuria)?