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What test is used to assist clinicians to diagnose abnormal behaviors; need two standard deviations?

A

Minnesota MPI

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What looks at an ink blot for projective personality test?

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Rorschach Inkblot

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What is a series of cards; each depicting an ambiguous scene; evaluates the drive; motives and emotions of a patient; look at unconscious?

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Thematic Aperception Test

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What measured for Hamilton, Beck, and Friends Anxiety rating scale? What rates OCD?

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Depression

Yale Brown OCD

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What looks at the intelligence; memory; reasoning; orientation; perceptual-motor performance; attention; for dementia or brain damage?

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Neuropsychological test

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What is the presence and localization of brain functions; impairment index?

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Halsted-Reitan

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What test looks at wide range of cognitive function? Dyslexia and R/L dominance

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Luria Nebraska neuropsychological Battery

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What is the copy 9 geometric design; reproduce designs from memory?

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Bender Visual motor Gestalt

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What test screens for signs of neuropsychiatric/brain dysfunction?

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Halsted-Reitan Battery

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What test looks at visual perception and visual memory? Short Term memory loss

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Benton Visual Retention

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What is the Wechsler memory scale?

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Memory test/amnestic; look for korsakoff?s syndrome

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What is a well known screening test for cognitive dysfunction? What two mental states is it looking for?

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Folstein Mini-Mental State Exam: looks for dementia and delrium

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What is mental/chronological age x 100?

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IQ test

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Thematic sort cards tests look at what? Who is abnormal?

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Looks at executive Function; solve problems; attend specific task; frontal lobe or schizophrenia

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What is the most common IQ test?

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Wechsler Adult intelligence

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What is methylphenidate; dextroamphetamine; used for?

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ADHD; what is one more drug; dexmethylphenidate

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What is a nonstimulant for ADHD?

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Atomoxetine

18
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What is Guanfacine?

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Selective Alpha 2A receptor agonist; non stimulant

19
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Autism has persistent impairment in reciprocal what?

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Communication and social interaction

20
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What is autism A?

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Autism A is across multiple contexts

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What is Autism B?

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Across at least 2 contexts

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What is autism C?

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Must be present in early development

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What is autism D?

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Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment

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What is Asperger?s disorder classified as?

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Social disorder; no development/language delays

25
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CT looks at what?

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Anatomically based brain changes

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NMRI looks at what?

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Demyelinating disease, multiple sclerosis

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What localizes areas of the brain that are physiologically active during specific tasks?

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PET or fMRI

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What is more practical than an MRI

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SPECT

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What measures electrical activity in the cortex?

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EEG

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What does Evoked EEG show?

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Electrical activity, looks at vision and hearing loss in infants

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What does an EEG show for delirium and dementia?

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Dementia is normal, delirium is abnormal

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