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What are the 3 goals of neuropsych assessment?

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1) diagnosis
2) description
3) tracking change

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What are the advantages of using neuropsych assessment? (6)

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1) standardized
2) intensive
3) sensitive (highly skilled)
4) scaled
5) precise
6) quantitative observations

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What are 3 ways neuropsych assessments are interpreted?

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1) actuarial results
2) cutoff scores
3) tests

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What is aphasia?

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looking at language skills

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What is the Boston Aphasia Battery?

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assesses language skills, gives actuarial results

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What is the line crossing tests?

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used to detect “neglect” in R-hem

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Why does IQ needed to be estimated pre-damage?

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to determine actual loss of function

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How can pre-morbid IQ be estimated?

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1) education
2) vocab
3) occuaption
4) functional capacities (self-care)
5) demographic
6) reading lvl
7) subtest pattern

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What is malingering? Why is it done?

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faking disorder, $$ or narcotics

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How is malingering usually caught?

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ppl over do it

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What is Munchausen Syndrome?

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ppl faking it but not for $$ or narcotics

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What are test batteries?

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large sets of tests (used before brain scanning available)

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What are the PROS of neuropsych test batteries?

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  • psychometric properties
  • wide range of cog. functions
  • comparisons b/w patients easy
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What are the CONS of neuropsych test batteries?

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  • time consuming
  • test centered (vs. patient)
  • can fail a test for many reasons (not specific)
  • not flexible (very general) “cookie-cutter reports”
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What the 5 brain functions that are of interests to neuropsychologists?

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1) laterality
2) visual perception
3) language
4) memory
5) attention & executive control

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What is laterality? When is it important?

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R Hem vs. L hem, if neurosurgery planned

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Where is language found?

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L hem (usually)

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18
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What does the WADA test measure?

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laterality

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How does the WADA test work?

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freeze one hem, then the other

20
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The Annette Handedness Questionnaire gives what?

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a continuum of handedness

21
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What is agnosia?

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cannot recognize something when you see it

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What are the 4 types of agnosia?

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1) object: can’t recognize when see it
2) colour: can’t discriminate or name
3) propagnosia: faces
4) stimultagnosia: discrim b/w figures

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What is the guilty knowledge test?

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used to propagnosia, skin conductivity increases

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What is the figure/ground discrimination test?

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stimultagnosia, figure from background

25
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What is the embedded figure test?

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stimultagnosia, find objects hidden in pic

26
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What is the Rey-Osternich Complex Figure test?

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stimultagnosia, show stimuli then take away, ask to draw **lines

27
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What are the 2 batteries used in assessing language?

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1) Boston Diagnosis Aphasia Exam

2) Western Aphasia Battery (UWO)

28
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What is aphasia?

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language

29
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What and how does the Boston Diagnosis Aphasia Exam assess?

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connection b.w auditory & speech

  • oral expression (word rep, body part naming)
  • auditory comprehension (body part ID)
  • understanding written language (word/pic matching)
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What and how does the Western Aphasia Battery (UWO) assess?

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isolated injuries via task specific tests

  • graded naming/Boston naming test (name objects)
  • token test (understands words)
  • pyramid & palm tree (understanding)
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What is retrograde amnesia?

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can’t recall past events from injury to present

32
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What is anterograde amnesia?

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can’t store new memories

33
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How is retrograde amnesia tested?

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Boston Remote Memory Test (famous faces, recall intro of events)

34
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How is anterograde amnesia tested?

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Warrington’s Recognition Memory test (which face/word shown in original set when comparing 2)

35
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What does the Weschler Memory Scale measure?

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  • verbal vs. non
  • short vs. long
  • recall vs. recognition
36
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What does the Boston Remote Memory Test measure and how does it measure that?

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retrograde amnesia; (famous faces, recall intro of events)

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What does the Warrington’s Recognition Memory test measure and how does it measure that?

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anterograde amnesia (which face/word shown in original set when comparing 2)

38
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How is spatial attention measured?

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line bisection (put tick in half)

39
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How is sustained attention/vigilance measured?

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count how many times stim occurs
sustained = long time
vigilance = random so have to stay alert

40
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How is focused attention measured?

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have to ignore one thing to focus on something else

41
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How is divided attention measured?

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dichotic listening/visual search
trail making (1A->2B) etc
42
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How are executive functions measured?

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Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

43
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How does the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test work?

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match based on unspoken rule, rule changes and participant has to adapt

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What do people with executive functioning damage have trouble doing in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test?

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ignoring old rule (vs. learning the new one)

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