ANST Trivia
What APA Division is ANST under?
Division 40
This lobe is responsible for executive functions like planning and decision-making.
Frontal Lobe
This type of dementia is most strongly associated with stepwise cognitive decline due to cumulative infarcts.
Vascular dementia
The Stroop Test primarily measures this executive function.
Inhibitory control
He survived an iron rod through his skull, changing his personality.
Phineas Gage
Who is our CURRENT ANST chair?
Brian Cerny
This structure regulates emotions and is central in the limbic system.
Amygdala
This structure is critical for forming new episodic memories.
Hippocampus
This test asks individuals to recall a list of words over multiple trials.
California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)
Patient H.M. lost the ability to form new memories after this brain structure was removed.
Hippocampus
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
The brain is largely developed by this trimester of prenatal life.
Third trimester
A patient with memory loss, a history of alcoholism, and MRI evidence of mammillary body atrophy likely has this syndrome.
Korsakoff’s syndrome
The D-KEFS Trail Making Test assesses this function beyond just motor speed.
Cognitive flexibility or Set-shifting
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
What are our 5 Focus groups?
Aging, Forensic, Neurotech, Pediatric, Rehabilitation
This process, critical during development, removes unnecessary synapses.
Synaptic pruning
This deep brain structure is involved in reward and movement regulation and is affected in Parkinson’s disease
Basal ganglia
Someone with slowed motor output and impaired set-shifting, but intact memory, may have damage to this region.
Frontal lobe
What did the soldier, Patient Z, from Luria’s early work suffer from?
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!
The brain consumes approximately this percent of an adult body’s total energy.
~20%
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)
Good recognition but poor recall performance suggests a deficit in this memory process.
Retrieval
This rare condition, documented in patient L.M., involves the inability to perceive motion, despite intact object and color vision.
Akinetopsia