ANST Trivia
Brain Basics
Neuroanatomy
Neuropsychological Tests
Famous Cases
100

What APA Division is ANST under?

Division 40

100

This lobe is responsible for executive functions like planning and decision-making.

Frontal Lobe

100

This type of dementia is most strongly associated with stepwise cognitive decline due to cumulative infarcts.

Vascular dementia

100

The Stroop Test primarily measures this executive function.

Inhibitory control

100

He survived an iron rod through his skull, changing his personality.

Phineas Gage

200

Who is our CURRENT ANST chair?

Brian Cerny

200

This structure regulates emotions and is central in the limbic system.

Amygdala

200

This structure is critical for forming new episodic memories.

Hippocampus

200

This test asks individuals to recall a list of words over multiple trials.

California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)

200

Patient H.M. lost the ability to form new memories after this brain structure was removed.

Hippocampus

300

What is the purpose of ANST?

Offer a supportive community and network of mentors and peers to provide fellow trainees with the information, resources, and professional connections

300

The brain is largely developed by this trimester of prenatal life.

Third trimester

300

A patient with memory loss, a history of alcoholism, and MRI evidence of mammillary body atrophy likely has this syndrome.

Korsakoff’s syndrome

300

The D-KEFS Trail Making Test assesses this function beyond just motor speed.

Cognitive flexibility or Set-shifting

300

This French neurologist’s patient, “Tan,” could only speak a single word but could understand language, leading to the discovery of expressive aphasia.

Paul Broca

400

What are our 5 Focus groups?

Aging, Forensic, Neurotech, Pediatric, Rehabilitation 

400

This process, critical during development, removes unnecessary synapses.

Synaptic pruning

400

This deep brain structure is involved in reward and movement regulation and is affected in Parkinson’s disease

Basal ganglia

400

Someone with slowed motor output and impaired set-shifting, but intact memory, may have damage to this region.

Frontal lobe

400

What did the soldier, Patient Z, from Luria’s early work suffer from? 

Frontal lobe injury; Impaired goal-directed behavior and apathy
500

What makes ANST Focus groups unique/special?

They are unique from other specialized groups within neuropsychology organization in that they are trainee-led and trainee-focused!

500

The brain consumes approximately this percent of an adult body’s total energy.

~20% 

500

This disorder is caused by immune-mediated demyelination of white matter tracts and can result in “cognitive fog,” slowed processing, and attention difficulties.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

500

Good recognition but poor recall performance suggests a deficit in this memory process.

Retrieval

500

This rare condition, documented in patient L.M., involves the inability to perceive motion, despite intact object and color vision.

Akinetopsia

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