Neuropsych Basics
The study of brain-behavior relationships
What is Neuropsychology?
This condition involves a significant cognitive decline (2SD) from a previous level of performance, with cognitive deficits that interfere with independence in everyday activities of daily living.
What is Major Neurocognitive Disorder?
The 3 structures that make up the hippocampal formation.
What is the Hippocampus, Dentate Gyrus, Subiculum?
What does this formula calculate
?=test score (X) - mean(M) / standard deviation (SD)
What is Z-Score?
The domain of self-regulation, inhibition of impulses, cognitive flexibility, emotional control, imitation, planning and organization.
What are executive functions?
Picture-naming task that assess naming skills in speakers of multiple languages
What is the MINT?
This syndrome can be considered for a patient presenting with acalculia, left/right confusion, agraphia, and finger agnosia.
What is Gerstmann's Syndrome?
_______ intelligence is known to increase with age as we accumulate knowledge throughout lifespan, while _______ intelligence reaches its processing ability peak at around age 20 before steadily declining.
What is Crystallized and Fluid Intelligence?
A collection of test scores derived from the administration of an assessment to a sample that is representative of the general population
What are Norms?
The structure that relays sensory and motor signals to cerebral cortex.
What is the Thalamus?
The idea that given behaviors/functions are controlled/distributed among different segments of the brain/neocortex.
What is localization?
This rare type of aphasia includes fluent speech and intact repetition, but poor comprehension.
What is Transcortical Sensory Aphasia?
A condition with a memory profile characterized by possibly intact encoding (that worsens with disease progression), poor learning, impaired storage, inability to retrieve/intrusions, false positive errors, and verbal memory that is equivalent to visual.
What is Alzheimer's Disease
The type of score that has a mean of 10 and standard deviation of 3.
What is a scaled score?
Arousal, Selective/Sustained, Alternating and Divided.
What are types of Attention?
In Piaget's _______ developmental stage, there is the occurrence of symbolic thinking, use of proper syntax and grammar to express concepts, imagination and intuition are strong, however, complex abstract thoughts are still difficult. Conversations also began to develop.
What is the Preoperational Stage?
A lesion of the optic chiasm will result in what type of visual deficit?
What is bitemporal hemianopia?
The name of the major declarative memory system loop.
What is Papez Circuit?
As sensitivity decreases, ____ tends to increase?
What is specificity?
Limbic system serves these "HOME" functions.
What is homeostatic function, olfaction, memory and emotion?
______, _____, and _____ make up the 3 primary brain vesicles.
What is Prosencephalon, Mesencephalon, and Rhombencephalon (Forebrain, Midbrain, Hindbrain).
One half of the spinal cord is lesioned resulting in bilateral symptoms.
What is Brown Sequard Syndrome?
Petri and Mishkin (1994)'s theory that behaviorism and cognitivism are complementary.
What is the Dual-System theory of learning?
The effect where people of each new generation perform consistently higher on an old version of an intelligence test.
What is the Flynn's Effect?
Name the lobe damage: Symptoms of akinesia, apathy, minimal initiation of movement or speech, lack of interest and indifference at times, emotional blunting, memory may be impaired (amnesia with confabulation), incontinence, and leg weakness.
What is Medial Frontal Lobe damage?