Chapter 16

What do the results from the Wada test imply about anosognosia?

Anosognosia is not due to denial because patients are not motivated to deny paralysis when they know it is temporary.

What is the study of the relationship between the nervous system, behavior, and psychological function?

Neuropsychology

Olivia does not have a good diet because she drinks a lot of alcohol and avoids eating healthy foods. Which of the following scenarios is she most likely to experience?

Olivia regularly makes up events that she believes actually happened.

What area of the brain is primarily involved in neuropsychological disorders with consciousness disturbances?

Reticular formation

At the emergency room, the doctor realized that Annemarie did not dress the left side of her body and was not aware that she had not put the pants on her left leg. According to our medical understanding of patients such as Annemarie, what is the most likely prognosis of Annemarie's condition?

She probably will not go for follow-up physical therapy because she doesn't think anything is wrong.

Adalyn said, "We play out with hands like before. We save a lot of hands on hold for people for us." Her neuropsychologist would likely diagnose her with

Wernicke's aphasia.

If someone has a problem with how the brain organizes, recognizes, or interprets information from her senses, she would most likely be diagnosed with

a perceptual disturbance.

At this point in time, researchers believe that Alzheimer's disease may be a result of

amyloid plaques that cause neurofibrillary tangles.

When brain damage interferes with the ability to complete the combination of movements required for a specific learned task, the result is

apraxia

When a patient seems really sleepy and then incredibly attentive shortly thereafter, she is experiencing

delirium

The inability of Alzheimer's disease patients to form new memories is most likely due to the damage to the

hippocampus

An area of damaged tissue in the brain is known as a _____.

lesion

The "where" system in the brain that is used to determine the location of an object is primarily located in the

parietal lobe

Neuropsychological disorders in which there are impairments in the ability to organize, recognize, interpret, and make sense of incoming sensory information are known as _____.

perceptual disturbances

When the blockage of blood flow to the brain causes noticeable behavioral or cognitive changes in a person, he has most likely had a

stroke

What is a pattern of symptoms that are characteristic of a particular neurological disorder?

syndrome

The term "modules" in the brain refers to

the discrete units of the brain that are responsible for a specific function.

In the context of mechanisms of brain dysfunction, a stroke usually involves little or no pain because:

there are no pain receptors in brain tissue.

Nerve cells of the medial dorsal thalamus are more likely to die than in other brain regions if there is a severe deficiency of _____.

thiamine

A type of face-related perceptual disturbance whereby a person believes that a friend or family member has been replaced with an imposter is known as

Capgras syndrome.

Which one of the following is a condition in which one of the blood vessels to the brain is blocked, causing permanent damage to the brain?

Cerebral infarct

Liam has been diagnosed with Korsakoff's syndrome. Which of the following research findings best illustrate the brain damage that accompanies this disease?

The medial dorsal thalamus is deprived of thiamine needed for energy production.

Which of the following is the best definition of neuropsychological assessment?

The process of testing a patient's cognitive and sensory function to locate the source of problems in the brain

If a patient is able to see both sides of a daisy but only draws the right side of the flower, what conclusion would a neuroscientist most likely make?

The symptoms are due to inattentiveness and not sensory problems alone.

Which one of the following best describes modules?

They are regions of the brain that perform their own unique kind of analysis of the information they receive.

Which of the following types of brain injury is best described as a concussion that is a result of direct impact to the head or a sudden, violent movement of the head?

Traumatic brain injury