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1
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What structures make up the hindbrain?

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  • cerebellum

- brain stem

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Which 3 structures make up the brain stem?

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  • medulla oblongata (meaning oblong marrow)
  • the pons (meaning bridge)
  • reticular formation
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What is the function of the medulla oblongata?

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  • regulation of breathing
  • swallowing
  • heartbeat
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What is the function of the pons?

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  • eye movements

- balance

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Which two structures make up the midbrain?

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  • tectum (meaning roof)

- tegmentum (meaning floor)

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Which structures make up the between brain?

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  • thalamus

- hypothalamus

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Cell bodies are composed of ____, and cell fibres are composed of ____

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gray matter; white matter

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The bumps on the surface of the forbrain are ___, the grooves are known as ____, and the deep, prominent sulci are called ____

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gyri; sulci; fissures

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Who was the first person to formally use the term ‘neuropsychology’?

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Donald Hebb

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What is the aim of experimental neuropsychology?

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To understand the behavioural organisation of the human brain

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What is the aim of comparative neuropsychology?

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To understand the behavioural organisation of animal brains

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What is the aim of cognitive neuropsychology?

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Has an interest in patients with brain injury. They study patients to identify and clarify the underlying processes of human cognition

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What is the aim of clinical neuropsychology?

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Has an interest in patients with brain injury. They specialise in the assessment and treatment of individuals with brain injury.

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What are the typical jobs of a neuropsychologist?

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  • conducting neuropsychological assessments
  • providing psycho-education, counselling, or psychotherapy for individuals with brain injury
  • planning, conducting, and evaluating neuropsychological rehabilitation
  • conducting clinical neuropsychology research
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Prior to imaging techniques, how did psychologists diagnose damage to the brain?

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’ test for brain damage’ or ‘test of organicity’

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In Australia, ____ is the largest single cause of disability of all neurological disorders

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stroke

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Define neuropsychological assessment

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The application of neuropsychological tests and other data-collection techniques to answer referral questions or solve problems for individuals with known or suspected brain injury

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What are some of the purposes of neuropsychological assessment?

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  • diagnosis
  • description of neuropsychological functions
  • prognosis
  • treatment planning
  • monitoring the rate of recovery
  • evaluating the effects of treatment
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What change in the role of neuropsychologists has happened in the last 40 years?

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They are now less involved in the diagnosis of suspected brain injury because of advances in neuroimaging techniques

20
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What are the 5 steps of neuropsychological assessment?

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  • interviewing
  • gathering other relevant information
  • neuropsychological testing
  • interpreting test results and integrating information
  • report writing and providing feedback
21
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Which is the most time consuming step in neuropsychological assessment?

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Neuropsychological testing

22
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What is taken into account when scoring a neuropsychological results?

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The test taker’s background

23
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The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery is an example of which type of battery?

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Fixed battery

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Name the subtests of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery

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  • category test
  • tactual performance test
  • speech sounds perception test
  • seashore rhythm test
  • finger tapping test
  • trail making test
  • aphasia screening test
  • sensory-pereptual examination
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What is the main strength and weakness of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery?

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  • the use of a standard set of measures on which patients’ performances can be compared
  • inflexible and lengthy
26
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What is the result of impairments in sensory functioning?

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Limits the amount of stimulus information that can be taken in by the individual

27
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What are the 3 components of attention?

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  • selective
  • attention span
  • focused
28
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Which test is commonly administered to measure attention span?

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Digit Span

Visual attention assessed using the Spatial Span subtest of the WMS-III

29
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Which test is commonly administered to measure focused attention?

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Trail Making Test and the Digit Symbol subtest of the WAIS

30
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Robertson et al. designed which test to address the issue of ecological validity in neuropsychological assessment?

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The Test of Everyday Attention (TEA)

31
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What are the two types of memory?

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  • declarative

- non-declarative

32
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Most clinical tests focus on ____ rather than ____ memory; why?

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declarative; non-declarative

Because deficits in nondeclarative memory are not usually found after brain injury

33
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Which type of memory is not measured in assessment?

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Prospective memory - the memory to do things in the future

34
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What is the major difference between the WMS-IV and previous versions?

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The WMS-IV uses on battery for adults aged 16-69, and another slightly modified battery for older adults between 65-90 years

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Which indices is not included in the 65-90 year battery that is included in the 16-69 year old battery in the WMS-IV?

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Visual-working memory

The others are auditory, immediate, delayed, visual

36
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The WMS-IV has been found to be sensitive to what?

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Brain injury

37
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What are the RAVLT and ROCFT used to test?

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Verbal and visual memory

38
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What is the testing process of the RAVLT?

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The individual is read a list of 15 words, 5 times and asked to recall as many as possible after each trial

39
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Which two tests does the book list as assessing language?

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The Western Aphasia Battery-Revised and the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination

40
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___ scores predicted performance on other aphasia tests better than patient functioning in everyday circumstances

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Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE)

41
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What does the HVOT measure?

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Visuo-spatial functioning

42
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Which test can be used to measure spatial awareness?

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The Standardised Road-Map Test of Direction Sense (SRMTDS)

43
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Which test is able to distinguish those with parietal lobe injuries from those with Huntington’s or AD?

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Standardised Road-Map Test of Direction Sense (SRMTDS)

44
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What does the D-KEFS measures?

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Executive functioning

45
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What is a main strength of the D-KEFS?

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Comprehensiveness

46
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The Perdue Pegboard is used to measure which type of function?

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Motor

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