Neuropsych Basics I
The study of brain-behavior relationships
What is neuropsychology?
Includes bathing, dressing, and toileting oneself
What is activities of daily living (ADLs)?
The region of the brain where movement, speaking, planning, organizing, reasoning, judgment occurs
What is the frontal lobe?
Functions include encoding, consolidation, retrieval and recognition
What is memory?
The Anterior Expressive Language Zone
What is Broca’s area?
Clinicians who focus on thinking, emotions and behavior
What is a neuropsychologist?
Includes paying bills, managing medication and doctors’ appointments
What is independent activities of daily living (IADLs)?
Daily Double!
The region of the brain where memory, understanding language, and emotion occurs
What is the temporal lobe?
Acquisition, retention, and retrieval of knowledge that can be intentionally recollected
What is declarative memory?
The Posterior Receptive Language Zone
What is Wernicke’s area?
The opportunity to talk to the patient about their complaints and gather information
What is the clinical interview?
Ways to relate to others, ways of behaving in different contexts and circumstances
What is culture?
The region of the brain where sensations and spatial reasoning occurs
What is the parietal lobes?
Daily Double!
The acquisition, retention & retrieval of knowledge expressed through experience-induced changes in performance
What is non-declarative memory?
Also accept: implicit, procedural
Central area in the processing of written language
What is the angular gyrus?
A relative or friend of the patient who provide reliable information
What is a collateral?
Accounts for the majority of the cognitive processes that underpin successful performance in IQ test
What is school attendance?
The region of the brain where seeing objects, locating objects in space, and recognizing the things we see occurs
What is the occipital lobe?
Recall of events/autobiographical experience
What is episodic memory?
Area that makes semantic association of words
What is the Occipitotemporal Junction?
Includes observations on affect, speech, thought process, judgment and insight
What is the mental status exam?
Accounts for different manifestations of psychiatric and neurocognitive syndromes
What is culture?
The three major divisions of the prefrontal cortex
What is dorsolateral, orbitofrontal, medial frontal?
Recall of information, including facts, concepts, & names
What is semantic memory?
Area associated with naming persons
What is temporal poles?