Exam 4 Part 3

Question 1

True or false: in somatophrenia, motor function may not remain intact for neglected limbs though the limbs may remain unutilized

Answer 1

False; will stay intact

Question 2

Individuals may be able to attend to neglected side with prompting

Answer 2

Hemispatial neglect

Question 3

What are the characteristics of selective and sustained attention deficits if someone has RHD?

Answer 3

Miss relevant information, distraction by stimuli, lose track of what is being said

Question 4

Inability to recognize that you have deficits

Answer 4

Anosognosia

Question 5

What are the feelings and attitudes towards anosognosia?

Answer 5

May be calm and assured that if there is a problem that it doesn’t have to do anything with them

Question 6

Belief that loved ones, significant others, or family members have been replaced by imposters who look and sound like the original person

Answer 6

Capgras delusion

Question 7

Capgras delusion may present in those with ______(3)

Answer 7

Epilepsy, TBI, stroke, or acute lesion to right hemisphere

Question 8

What is the neuropathology of Capgras delusion?

Answer 8

Disconnection of the area of the brain responsible for processing faces and the area of the brain responsible for producing normal emotional response in reaction to seeing the face

Question 9

The delusional belief that a familiar person is able to take on the guise of another person, at times many other people, and assume their exact appearance

Answer 9

Fregoli delusion

Question 10

Fregoli delusion is accompanied by _____

Answer 10

Paranoia

Question 11

When an individual is perceiving something visually that does not exist

Answer 11

Visual hallucination

Question 12

What is the neuropathology of visual hallucinations?

Answer 12

Lesions or seizure activity usually in posterior right hemisphere among visual processing areas

Question 13

Visual or auditory hallucination that is perceived as threatening, ominous, or foreboding

Answer 13

Paranoid hallucinations