Neuropsychological testing — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: In cognitive testing; asking the patient to draw a clock oriented to the time requested tests _____

Answer: executive function

Flashcard 2: _____ is defined as decreased cognitive ability, memory, or function with intact consciousness

Answer: Dementia

Flashcard 3: Early-onset dementia with Parkinsonian features is suggestive of _____ dementia

Answer: Lewy body

Flashcard 4: In cognitive testing; having the patient recall 3 unrelated words after 5 minutes would test _____

Answer: short-term memory

Flashcard 5: In cognitive testing; asking the patient to provide details of significant life events tests _____

Answer: long term memory

Flashcard 6: mammillary bodies

Answer: confusion, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, confabulation, personality change, permanent anterograde and retrograde amnesia

Flashcard 7: frontal lobe

Answer: disinhibition; deficits in concentration, orientation, judgment; reemergence of primitive reflexes

Flashcard 8: conduction aphasia

Answer: damage to arcuate fasciculus of dominant hemisphere

Extra: fluent speech, intact comprehension, impaired repetition

Flashcard 9: aphasia

Answer: speech deficit due to high-order processing problem

Flashcard 10: long-term memory

Answer: limbic system