W7_10 Frontal Lobe Functions

Question 1

what’s a test for verbal fluency?

Answer 1

testing for rate of naming of words beginning with the letter “_” per minute, or animals per minute

Question 2

what’s a test for distractibility and inattention?

Answer 2

serial 7s and 3s subtractions;

stroop test

Question 3

what’s the stroop test?

Answer 3

words that are different colours. have to name the colour, but not read the word. tests for focus and attention.

Question 4

what’s a test for shift setting?

Answer 4

drawing (e.g. multiple loops);
wisconsin card sorting test;
“go-no-go” test

Question 5

how to test for a susceptibility to be pulled towards perceptual features?

Answer 5

clock drawing (recall the '10 after 11' clock);
image and naming exercises

Question 6

what is reduplicative paramnesia?

Answer 6

the feeling that a familiar place (maybe person too) has been duplicated

Question 7

what is capgras syndrome?

Answer 7

delusion that a person has been replaced by an impostor

Question 8

reduced self-awareness is commonly due to a lesion where?

Answer 8

frontal lobe

Question 9

what is theory of mind?

Answer 9

the awareness of the content of other people’s minds; can the patient look from someone else’s shoes?