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100

The famous patient that experienced profound anterograde amnesia following bilateral medial temporal lobectomy

Who is HM?
100
Patients with this condition tend to have primary symptoms of urinary incontinence, altered mentation, and gait disturbance

What is Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)?

100

This cluster of neural structures is highly implicated in motor functioning

What is the basal ganglia?

100
This type of memory test is the best way to differentiate between cortical and subcortical dementias

What is recognition memory?

100

The psychiatric disorder that is treated with laser ablation to the internal capsule

What is OCD? (treatment-resistant)

200

This cognitive ability is often labeled as an aspect of memory, but is more accurately defined as an executive function

What is working memory?

200

Patients with this disorder tend to fall backward, rather than forward

What is Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)?

200

Myelination occurs most rapidly during this age period

What is infancy?

200

Intact function on this type of language test would argue against Alzheimer's 

What is confrontation naming?
200

Fink is German for this word

What is Finch?

300
A patient that cannot remember the events leading up to their TBI is experiencing this kind of memory loss
What is retrograde amnesia?
300

Patients with Lewy body dementia frequently report this type of visual hallucination

What are small/lilliputian people?

300

The channel that connects the 3rd and 4th ventricles

What is the cerebral aqueduct?

300

The validity of this executive functioning test is highly impacted by practice effects 

What is the Wisconsin Card Sort Test (WCST)?
300

The main thing that a DaTScan measures

What is dopamine activity?

400
Residual memory deficits following Wernicke's encephalopathy are referred to as this syndrome

What is Korsakoff's?

400

This type of atypical dementia is associated primarily with degeneration in the parietal and occipital lobes

What is posterior cortical atrophy?
400

This type of cells are only found in the cerebellum

What are Purkinje cells?

400

The neurocognitive test that is most predictive of driving difficulties (per Dr. Lacy)

What is Trails B?

400

REM behavior disorder is most commonly seen in patients with this type of dementia

What is dementia with Lewy bodies?

500

Problems with source memory point to difficulties in this brain region

What are the frontal lobes?

500

These are the four cardinal symptoms of Parkinson's disease 

What are TRAP? aka tremors, rigidity, akinesia/bradykinesia, postural instability

500

The white matter structure that connects the hippocampus to the mammillary bodies

What is the fornix?

500

Impaired phonemic fluency in the context of intact semantic fluency is suggestive of this underlying etiology

What is cerebrovascular disease/vascular dementia?

500

This abnormal laboratory finding is associated with slowed processing speed and inattention

What is anemia?