Final Exam Review

Question 1

What is a control group?

Answer 1

A group not receiving the treatment being studied.

Question 2

What is a randomized control trial?

Answer 2

A research design consisting of random people placed into two groups: one group that receives the treatment being tested and another group that receives no treatment, a placebo, or another treatment that is being compared to the treatment being tested. It is Level 1 evidence.

Question 3

What is a cohort/matched group design?

Answer 3

A research design consisting of a group of people who are studied over a period of time. It is level 2 evidence

Question 4

What is a single subject design?

Answer 4

A research design consisting of one subject that acts as a control and whose behavior in response to a treatment or approach is studied over time. It is level 3 evidence.

Question 5

What are the risk factors for stroke?

Answer 5

HBP, Diabetes, smoking, brain aneurysms, family history, race and ethnicity, age; high stress; anxiety; overweight or obesity;; lack of exercise; poor diet; loneliness; blood thinners; living or working under air pollution; drinking alcohol; embolism; thrombosis; compression; bleeding

Question 6

Nonfluent aphasia results from occlusion to which cerebral arteries?

Answer 6

ACA and anterior MCA

Question 7

Fluent aphasia results from occlusion to which cerebral arteries?

Answer 7

left posterior MCA

Question 8

Pure alexia results from occlusion to which cerebral artery?

Answer 8

PCA

Question 9

What are signs and symptoms of a closed head injury?

Answer 9

confusion; trouble focusing; headache; vomiting; nausea; trouble walking; dizziness; memory problems; overly sensitive to bright light; feeling tired; seizures; loss of consciousness; issues with vision and/or hearing; hard to speak

Question 10

What are signs and symptoms of an open head injury?

Answer 10

focal injury; internal bleeding; likely caused by a GSW;

Question 11

What is the frontotemporal region of the brain responsible for?

Answer 11

personality, behavior, and language

Question 12

What is the temporo-parietal region of the brain responsible for?

Answer 12

right side: attention, perspective taking, and social cognition; left side: comprehension

Question 13

What is deep alexia caused by?

Answer 13

damage to much of the left frontal lobe. There’s an impairment in the direct route between orthography and phonology

Question 14

What is the perisylvian region?

Answer 14

region of the brain by the lateral sulcus and includes Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area

Question 15

What is the inferior parietal lobule?

Answer 15

area of the brain that process sensory information and helps in being aware of space

Question 16

What is the inferior frontal gyrus?

Answer 16

part of the brain that has Broca’s area

Question 17

What is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex?

Answer 17

responsible for working memory, attention, goal setting, inhibition, self-regulation

Question 18

What are signs and symptoms of diffuse axonal injury?

Answer 18

headache, nausea, vomiting, coma, dizziness, fatigue

Question 19

In a LTC facility, what do you do as the SLP?

Answer 19

evaluate swallowing, cognition, and communication; develop a care; compare results to prior functioning, current and future needs; consider outcome and prognosis

Question 20

Aphasia involves impairments in ________, _____, and ______ but TBI involves impairments in ______

Answer 20

syntax, morphology, and phonology; pragmatics

Question 21

In aphasia, ______ is preserved, but in TBI _______ and ______ is preserved.

Answer 21

pragmatics; syntax and morphology