An amnesic disorder that develops after many years of chronic alcohol abuse and nutritional deficiency.
What is Korsakoff's syndrome?
100
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs (and 16th in line for the US Presidency)
Who is Eric K. Shinseki
100
The most common source of blast injury in OEF/OIF veterans.
What is an IED?
100
If base rate is low, __________ predictive value is more important
What is positive?
100
This test has 6 alternate forms and can be used even with moderately demented patients.
What is the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R)?
200
A nonconscious form of memory that does not require any explicit recollection.
What is implicit (or procedural) memory?
200
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was established as at this level position on March 15, 1989
What is cabinet-level?
200
A few days to 3 months
How long does it take for most patients to recover back to baseline after a mTBI?
200
In a negatively skewed distribution, where is the mean in relationship to the mode (=/L/R)?
What is to the left?
200
This is Laura Grande’s pet test.
What is the Clock in the Box?
300
Method of loci, creating a story using items from a grocery list, and associating a name with a salient bodily feature are all examples.
What are mneumonic devices?
300
The percentage of medical residents receiving some training at a VA facility.
What is 60%?
300
A term used in the literature to refer to the 3-5% of mTBI patients who have chronic persisting symptoms.
What is the “miserable minority?”
300
Tests with floor effects will have what kind of distribution?
What is positively skewed?
300
A reading task originally developed using a British sample to provide an estimate of premorbid intellectual ability.
What is the National Adult Reading Test (NART)?
400
More common name for the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
What is the G.I. Bill?
400
The 22-item self-report measure embedded in the 2nd level TBI evaluation.
What is the Neurobehavioral Symptom Inventory (NSI)?
400
TN / (FP + TN)
What is specificity?
400
This measure of response bias is named after a Canadian city.
What is the Victoria Symptom Validity Test?
500
A famous patient who suffered severe retrograde and anterograde amnesia as a result of a traumatic brain injury, but retained relatively intact semantic memory.
Who was patient K.C.?
500
The first successful human transplant of this organ took place at the Denver VA in 1963
What is the liver?
500
The largest military hospital outside of the US where seriously injured OIF/OEF soldiers are treated.
What is the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (Landstuhl hospital or Landstuhl, Germany accepted)?
500
((retest score + mean change score) – initial test score) / SED
What is Reliable Change Index with correction for practice effects?
500
Some have proposed that this measure of sensory function is an early warning sign of AD.