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Inability to name something

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anomia

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The term for an acquired disturbance of computational ability:

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acalculia

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An inability to copy or assemble items in two-or-three dimensional space is called:

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constructional apraxia

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Dysarthia

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articulation difficulties caused by dysfunction in the motor strip.

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Impaired face recognition

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Propsopagnosia

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dorsolateral circuit

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helps organize behavior when solving complex problems, planning, organizing, time management, self monitoring, attention

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Chronic stress from abuse or neglect releases cortisol which impacts memory performance, clouds thinking, and reduces volume of what part of the brain?

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Hippocampus

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This pathway extends from the occipital lobe to the temporal lobe and uses a whole-word approach to reading. What is this pathway called?

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Ventral Strem

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This traditional subtype of agraphia is usually associated with writing problems in association with language problems.

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Apraxic agraphia

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Somatosensory cortex

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body regarding temperature proprioception
touch
texture
pain

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Pituitary gland

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Makes, stores, and releases hormones

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Diffuse Axonal Injury

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Damage occurs when there is a lot of twisting and turning of brain tissue during an accident or injury

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A medical condition that is characterized by the ventricles of the brain overfilling with cerebrospinal fluid is called?

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Hydrocephalus

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The two hemispheres are connected by:

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Corpus collosum

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Using a work bank or providing “prompts” (story starters, picture prompts) are supports that may be particularly useful for a student with a weakness in which cognitive ability domain?

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Long-term retrieval

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Inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord causes this disease?

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Meningitis

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Which of the following types of attention is related to working memory:

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Divided attention

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Which brain structure serves as a relay station for visual information:

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thalamus

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What term is used to refer to a convoluted way of saying something?

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circumlocution

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Which of the frontal-subcortical circuits would most likely be involved with a child’s eye tracking?

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oculomotor circuit

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This pathway extends from the occipital lobe to the temporal-parietal junction and is essential for the phonetic decoding in reading. What is this pathway called?

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Ventral stream

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What part of the brain would be the locus of the seizure if the symptoms included trashing movements during sleep, fear, screaming, or bicycle movements of the legs?

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Frontal Lobes

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If a child had a Glasgow Coma score of 13-15 what classification of TBI would be used to describe this child?

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mild TBI

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Theory of mind processes seem to be localized in what part of the brain?

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Medial prefrontal cortext

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A verbal fluency task activities what part of the prefrontal cortex?

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left dorsolateral

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A child with poor initiating behaviors and behavioral apathy may have dysfunction in what part of the prefrontal cortex?

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anterior cingulate

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What type of aphasia is characterized by slow, laborious, and nonfluent speech?

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Broca’s aphasia

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The neuroantomical focus for shifting attention seems to be centered in what part of the brain?

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dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

28
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An impaired recognition of the meaning of whole pictures or objects, but intact ability to describe the parts of the pictures/objects, describes what condition?

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simultanagnoisa

29
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Perception of objects takes place within what part of the visual cortex?

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Extrastriate cortex

30
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What brain structure produces norepinephrine to facilitate alerting and exciting a board network of neural networks?

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locus coeruleus

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The pathway for touch, proprioception, and movement:

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Dorsal column-medial lemniscal system

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All of the following are symptoms of a focal impaired awareness seizure except one, which one?

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The child stays aware of their surroundings.

33
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The primary cause of TBI in infants is:

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abuse and neglect

34
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This traditional subtype of agraphia is usually associated with visual neglect:

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spatial agraphia

35
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This region of the brain is responsible for ascribing an emotional valence or value judgment to another’s feelings and often triggers an automatic social skills response. What is this part of the brain?

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Orbitofrontal cortext

36
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Which neurotransmitter plays a major role in regulating attention?

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Dopamine

37
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Knowing where a ball is in space is _____ lobe and deciding if we can catch it is _____ lobe.

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Parietal, frontal

38
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The part of the brain is involved in planning complex movements and in coordinating movements involvement both hands.

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Supplemental motor cortex

39
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What type of aphasia is characterized by intact comprehension and spontaneous speech but difficulty with repeating words?

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Conduction aphasia

40
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Which term means the inability to initiate voluntary motor movements?

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Apraxia

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What type of seizure disorder affects movement on one side of the body and the child stays aware of his/her surroundings?

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focal aware

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What term is used when there is no statistically significant performance difference between a cognitive deficit and an academic weakness?

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concordant

43
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The visuomotor precision subtest on the NEPSY allows you to examine both graphomotor speed and what other construct?

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accuracy

44
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The pathway for pain and temperature sense is called the:

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Anterolateral system

45
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The primary auditory cortex is located in the:

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Superior part of the temporal lobe

46
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Functions of the limbic system

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Behavior and emotional responses
Memory
Olfaction

47
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Amygdala

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Emotional memories
Hyperactive is the source for most anxiety
Serotonin can help calm down the amygdala

48
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Psychogenic Non‐Epilepsy Seizures (PNES)

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Usually witnesses by someone

Awareness of surroundings

Duration much longer than typical seizure

49
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An inability to copy or assemble items in two-or-three dimensional space is called:

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constructional apraxia

50
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What term means an impaired ability to recognize and identify visual information?

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Visual Agnosia

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