Exam - Neuro

Question 1

(4) Features of Parkinsonism

Answer 1

–Bradykinesia
–Tremor
–Rigidity
–Postural instability

Question 2

(5) features of Parkinsonian gait

Answer 2

–Flexed posture
–Reduced arm swing
–Enhanced resting tremor
–Shuffling, festinating gait
–En bloc turning

Question 3

How do you test for dysphasia?

Answer 3

–No ifs, ands or buts

–One thing a nation must have to be rich and great is a large secure supply of wood

Question 4

How do you test for Dysarthria?

Answer 4

–West Register Street, Royal Ulster Constabulary, British constitution
–Methodist Episcopal Church, statistical analysis

Question 5

How can you differentiate issues of language-related problems?

Answer 5

•Distinguish dysphasia, dysarthria, dysphonia, (dysprosody)
•Handedness and hemispheric dominance for language
•Language: expression & reception (spoken & written), repetition and naming
–Fluent vs. non-fluent spontaneous speech
–Comprehension
–Repetition
–Naming

Question 6

What is Frontal Assessment Battery? What are its 6 components?

Answer 6

a brief tool that can be used at the bedside or in a clinic setting to assist in discriminating
between dementias with a frontal dysexecutive phenotype and Dementia of Alzheimer‟s Type (DAT)

•Similar objects: fruit, furniture, flowers
•Lexical fluency: list words beginning with S
•Luria test: fist-palm-edge
•Conflicting instructions
–“Tap twice when I tap once”
–“Tap once when I tap twice”
•Go-No Go
–“Tap once when I tap once”
–“Do not tap when I tap twice”
•Grasp: “Don’t take my hands”