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| Can alzheimer's be diagnosed? |
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| Only with a brain biopsy after death |
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| The clinical neuropsychologist answers the following questions: |
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1. Any cerebral impairment?
2. How severe is the injury?
3. Is the lesion progressive or static?
4. Is the lesion diffuse or lateralized, or are there multiple lesions?
5. Is the impairments anterior or posterior? Can it be localized?
6.What is the most likely pathological process, and what is the prognosis?
7. What are the individual's cognitive/behavioral strengths and weaknesses, & how do they related to daily living skills, treatments, and rehabilitation?
8. Do the neuropsych deficits influence the patient's quality of life?
9. What is the patient's reaction to the injury and/or impairment? |
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| pioneered use of a standard battery approach of tests for identifying brain damage |
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| Opponents of the test battery approach |
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| complex behavior cannot and should not be reduced to a single number or test score |
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| Process Approach (Hypothesis Approach) |
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| Neuropsychologists should adapt each exam to the individual patient. |
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| Advantages to the Process Approach |
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1. Concentrates on most relevant areas for the patient.
2. emphasizes in what manner the patient fails to succeed in a specific cognitive task
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| Majority of neuropsychologists use which type of approach in testing? |
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| Modified battery approach-choose specific tests to answer a referral question |
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| Figuring out "norms" in neuropsychology |
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| compare individual's test scores and available normative data. Age, sex, education, and intelligence |
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| A patient scoring less than the "cutoff score" |
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| labeled as impaired. If they score better, they are labeled as within normal limits (WNL) |
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| Most useful tests in relation to sensitivity and specificity |
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| High sensitivity and high specificity |
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| What is the basis for the scoring system on many standardized tests? |
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| standardized and group oriented. Useful for understanding general conditions and disease states. |
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| Modification of the differential score approach. Examines relationships among the scores in a test battery. |
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| Can a test be fully insensitive to brain injury? |
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| No, no test is fully insensitive to brain damage |
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| if one side of the body performs significantly worse than the other, the opposite hemisphere may have been injured |
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| What kind of observations are pathagnomic signs? |
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| Greek definition for pathognomonic symptoms |
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| "fit to give judgment" (often a specific diagnosis can be made from them) |
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| Do pathognomonic signs occur in normal people? |
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| Examples of pathagnomonic signs |
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| rotation of a drawing or the failure to draw the left half of a figure |
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| What type of tests to older people do less well on as they grow older? |
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| clinical tests measuring adaptive abilities, problem-solving skills, and perceptual & attentional skills |
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| what population has neuropsych tests focused on in the past? |
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| cerebral organization the same in males and females? |
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| Women are better on what type of tests? |
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| verbal skills, verbal learning, and verbal fluency |
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| Men Perform better on what type of tests? |
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| intentional exaggeration or presentation of neuropsychological symptoms |
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| Do neuropsych tests have the ability to detect faking? |
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| patient is consciously denying that there is anything wrong for secondary gain |
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| suggests they can detect malingering and functional disorders by finding performance patterns that are discrepant with known neuropsychological patterns |
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