Week 2- Neuropsychology & Brain Injury

Question 1

5 examples of neuropsychological measures

Answer 1

1. Verbal fluency task
2. Go/ no go task
3. Porteus maze task
4. Wisconsin card sorting task
5. Trail making test

Question 2

Which IQ affects intelligence

Answer 2

Verbal IQ

Question 3

What’s an example of iq test

Answer 3

Wechsler intelligence scale for children (WISC)

Question 4

antisocial group tend to have how much lower of IQ score

Answer 4

-8, and it should be more

Question 5

Does Low IQ cause ASB

Answer 5

YES

Question 6

How to test that IQ causes ASB

Answer 6

Usually gold standard is randomised experiment, but for IQ, statistical testing

Question 7

Does high IQ protect you against ASB

Answer 7

YES

Question 8

which regions of the prefrontal cortex is implicated for EF

Answer 8

1. Dorso- lateral

2. Orbito- frontal

Question 9

Do white collar criminals have high or Low EF

Answer 9

HIGH!!!

Question 10

Can TBI cause ASB

Answer 10

YES!!!

Question 11

Which prefrontal region implicated for ASB

Answer 11

1. Mediofrontal

2. Orbitofrontal

Question 12

Does brain damage 100% mean ASB? Example

Answer 12

NO!! Spanish phineas gage

Question 13

Aaron Hernandez

Answer 13

Chronic traumatic encephalogy (CTE)

Question 14

1. Measures what in the body
2. What they use to measure it
3. Showing brain function or structure
   For PET, fMRI & aMRI

Answer 14

PET

1. Glucose metabolism
2. Inject radioactive compound
3. Function

fMRI

1. Flow of oxygenated blood to brain regions
2. Magnets
3. Function

aMRI
1 & 2 same as fMRI
3. Structure

Question 15

In PET what does red yellow blue green mean

Answer 15

Red & yellow: high glucose activity

Blue & green: Low

Question 16

Reactive vs proactive aggression

Answer 16

Reactive vs proactive

• hot blooded (vs cold blooded)
• affective murderers (vs predatory)
• lower EF (vs higher EF)

Question 17

Those with APD have higher or lower prefrontal gray volume? How abt Those w white collared offences

Answer 17

LOWER
For WCO, 
Greater
- left ventromedical prefrontal cortex 
- right inferior frontal gyrus

Question 18

Both significant, but brain structure or function more?

Answer 18

Function.

Question 19

Does age 3 brain health predict negative life outcomes

Answer 19

YES

Question 20

Bio and social predictors predict ASD how many percent of the time

Answer 20

88.5% (more than individually)

Question 21

Brain imaging only shows the difference. What 2 ways to show causality of brain damage causing APD

Answer 21

1. tDCS (non invasive brain stimulation)
2. Mr OFT
   child porn off and on when tumour there

Question 22

When is EF higher

Answer 22

• cold blooded (proactive aggression)
• multiple murders
• white collar criminals
• compulsive liars