Lecture 21 (clinical neuropsychology) Flashcards
Which four categories do you need to know to make a neuropsychological assessment?
Journal information, subjective complaints, an objective impression and psychological assessment.
What can an interview with the patient give you?
Facts: background story.
Clinically: impact of the injury
Therapeutic: listening and wanting to hear what the patient has to say.
Which test can test visual perception?
The street test
A way to look at cognition (we did this)?
A complex figure where they have to draw and then draw again later from their memory.
Why are the patient’s family important?
They can tell you information that aren’t available in the journal or the patient won’t tell you.
Why do you need to know a premorbid level of functioning?
You need to know how they were before the injury to know what to expect from them.
What is at the bottom and top of the cognitive pyramid?
Bottom: mental energy and motivation.
Top: executive functions such as problem solving and abstraction.
What is the problem if the patient won’t cooperate?
You aren’t able to measure valid if the patient won’t cooperate and reveal weaknesses about themselves.
What is threatening the validity?
It can be hard to know if the test measures what they want it to measure in people with brain injuries because their brain and the person don’t function as normal people with injuries.
Where do many of the people with brain injuries have to go?
Rehab to relearn their lost functions and/or to compensate for lost functions.
What can help people in their rehab?
Working with people with the same problem as them and making experience through training.
