Stroke territories
What artery is associated with:
right face and arm weakness & nonfluent aphasia
What is MCA?
Superior division for bragging rights.
In this disease, the myelin wears away, peels off or otherwise disappears.
What is multiple sclerosis?
State dependent learning.
What is the phenomenon where people remember more information if their physical or mental state is the same at time of encoding and time of recall?
If not a neuropsychologist, this mother of twins, might have pursued a career in skiing.
Who is Betsy Leritz?
This pink and orange business, located on every corner in the city, was started in Boston (Quincy).
What is Dunkin' Donuts?
What artery is associated with:
left face and arm weakness and left hemineglect (present to variable extent)
What is the right MCI?
Superior division for bragging rights.
This concept has been proposed to account for the disjunction between the degree of brain damage or pathology and its clinical manifestations.
What is cognitive reserve?
Bilateral destruction of the amygdala results in symptoms of this condition.
What is Kluver-Bucy?
people to put non-food objects in their mouths and engage in inappropriate sexual behavior. May also include: Visual agnosia and loss of normal fear and anger responses.
This supervisor survived bone-chilling temps during internship and is an avid hiker and enjoys visiting national parks.
Who is David Marra?
Sadly, this after-work gathering of friends and co-workers at local pubs ended in 1984.
What is the happy hour?
Artery associated with:
fluent aphasia and right visual field defect
What is left MCA?
Inferior division for bragging rights.
Mnemonic of "wet, wobbly & weepy," has bee used for this diagnosis.
What is normal pressure hydrocephalus?
This patient is famous for bilateral surgical removal of both hippocampi (and some surrounding structures). Who is this person and what was the result of this surgery?
Who was HM and what is dense amnesia?
This supervisor is originally from New Orleans, completed internship at VA Boston, and returned to our VA in 2007.
Who is Jennifer Vasterling?
The victim of the biggest art heist in history, with more than $500 million worth of paintings stolen in 1990.
What is the the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
(check it out -- worth the visit)
What artery is associated with:
right homonymous hemianopia (if extension to splenium - alexia without argaphia)
What is Left PCA?
This pain occurs when cold hits the receptors in the meninges.
What is a brain freeze?
These structures comprise Papez's circuit.
What are hippocampal formation—fornix—MB—AN— cingulate gyrus—cingulum—entorhinal cortex and back to the hippocampal formation?
This supervisor is a former football player and Dartmouth alum?
Who is Chad Gaudet?
This Boston team has a patent on a color named after the stadium where they play.
What is the Boston Red Sox?
Color is "Fenway Green"
What artery is associated with:
right left weakness, right leg sensory loss, possible alien hand syndrome, possible left hemineglect, may also see grasp reflex, flat affect, abulia and incontinence
What is the right ACA?
This type of tremor is generally presents bilaterally and is primarily seen during action.
What is an essential tremor?
PD -most often presents unilaterally and later progresses to both sides of the body, most commonly occurs at rest.
Yakovlev's circuit.
What is a limbic circuit including the orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala and dorsomedial nucleus of thalamus?
These three supervisors completed internship training at VA Boston.
Who is Bill, Betsy, Chad, Laura, and Melissa Amick (any combination)?
In January 1919, A 50-foot high tank, filled with this substance exploded in the North End. The 2.3 million gallons moved at 35 mph through the neighborhood with 25ft high wave.
What is molasses (great molasses flood)?
(killed 21 and injured 150)