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Question 1

Inability to name something

Answer 1

anomia

Question 2

The term for an acquired disturbance of computational ability:

Answer 2

acalculia

Question 3

An inability to copy or assemble items in two-or-three dimensional space is called:

Answer 3

constructional apraxia

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Dysarthia

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articulation difficulties caused by dysfunction in the motor strip.

Question 5

Impaired face recognition

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Propsopagnosia

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dorsolateral circuit

Answer 6

helps organize behavior when solving complex problems, planning, organizing, time management, self monitoring, attention

Question 7

Chronic stress from abuse or neglect releases cortisol which impacts memory performance, clouds thinking, and reduces volume of what part of the brain?

Answer 7

Hippocampus

Question 8

This pathway extends from the occipital lobe to the temporal lobe and uses a whole-word approach to reading. What is this pathway called?

Answer 8

Ventral Strem

Question 9

This traditional subtype of agraphia is usually associated with writing problems in association with language problems.

Answer 9

Apraxic agraphia

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Somatosensory cortex

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body regarding temperature proprioception
touch
texture
pain

Question 11

Pituitary gland

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Makes, stores, and releases hormones

Question 12

Diffuse Axonal Injury

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Damage occurs when there is a lot of twisting and turning of brain tissue during an accident or injury

Question 13

A medical condition that is characterized by the ventricles of the brain overfilling with cerebrospinal fluid is called?

Answer 13

Hydrocephalus

Question 14

The two hemispheres are connected by:

Answer 14

Corpus collosum

Question 15

Using a work bank or providing “prompts” (story starters, picture prompts) are supports that may be particularly useful for a student with a weakness in which cognitive ability domain?

Answer 15

Long-term retrieval

Question 16

Inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord causes this disease?

Answer 16

Meningitis

Question 17

Which of the following types of attention is related to working memory:

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Divided attention

Question 18

Which brain structure serves as a relay station for visual information:

Answer 18

thalamus

Question 19

What term is used to refer to a convoluted way of saying something?

Answer 19

circumlocution

Question 20

Which of the frontal-subcortical circuits would most likely be involved with a child’s eye tracking?

Answer 20

oculomotor circuit

Question 21

This pathway extends from the occipital lobe to the temporal-parietal junction and is essential for the phonetic decoding in reading. What is this pathway called?

Answer 21

Ventral stream

Question 22

What part of the brain would be the locus of the seizure if the symptoms included trashing movements during sleep, fear, screaming, or bicycle movements of the legs?

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Frontal Lobes

Question 23

If a child had a Glasgow Coma score of 13-15 what classification of TBI would be used to describe this child?

Answer 23

mild TBI

Question 24

Theory of mind processes seem to be localized in what part of the brain?

Answer 24

Medial prefrontal cortext

Question 25

A verbal fluency task activities what part of the prefrontal cortex?

Answer 25

left dorsolateral

Question 26

A child with poor initiating behaviors and behavioral apathy may have dysfunction in what part of the prefrontal cortex?

Answer 26

anterior cingulate

Question 27

What type of aphasia is characterized by slow, laborious, and nonfluent speech?

Answer 27

Broca's aphasia

Question 28

The neuroantomical focus for shifting attention seems to be centered in what part of the brain?

Answer 28

dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Question 28

An impaired recognition of the meaning of whole pictures or objects, but intact ability to describe the parts of the pictures/objects, describes what condition?

Answer 28

simultanagnoisa

Question 29

Perception of objects takes place within what part of the visual cortex?

Answer 29

Extrastriate cortex

Question 30

What brain structure produces norepinephrine to facilitate alerting and exciting a board network of neural networks?

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locus coeruleus

Question 31

The pathway for touch, proprioception, and movement:

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Dorsal column-medial lemniscal system

Question 32

All of the following are symptoms of a focal impaired awareness seizure except one, which one?

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The child stays aware of their surroundings.

Question 33

The primary cause of TBI in infants is:

Answer 33

abuse and neglect

Question 34

This traditional subtype of agraphia is usually associated with visual neglect:

Answer 34

spatial agraphia

Question 35

This region of the brain is responsible for ascribing an emotional valence or value judgment to another's feelings and often triggers an automatic social skills response. What is this part of the brain?

Answer 35

Orbitofrontal cortext

Question 36

Which neurotransmitter plays a major role in regulating attention?

Answer 36

Dopamine

Question 37

Knowing where a ball is in space is _____ lobe and deciding if we can catch it is _____ lobe.

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Parietal, frontal

Question 38

The part of the brain is involved in planning complex movements and in coordinating movements involvement both hands.

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Supplemental motor cortex

Question 39

What type of aphasia is characterized by intact comprehension and spontaneous speech but difficulty with repeating words?

Answer 39

Conduction aphasia

Question 40

Which term means the inability to initiate voluntary motor movements?

Answer 40

Apraxia

Question 41

What type of seizure disorder affects movement on one side of the body and the child stays aware of his/her surroundings?

Answer 41

focal aware

Question 42

What term is used when there is no statistically significant performance difference between a cognitive deficit and an academic weakness?

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concordant

Question 43

The visuomotor precision subtest on the NEPSY allows you to examine both graphomotor speed and what other construct?

Answer 43

accuracy

Question 44

The pathway for pain and temperature sense is called the:

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Anterolateral system

Question 45

The primary auditory cortex is located in the:

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Superior part of the temporal lobe

Question 46

Functions of the limbic system

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Behavior and emotional responses Memory Olfaction

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Amygdala

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Emotional memories Hyperactive is the source for most anxiety Serotonin can help calm down the amygdala

Question 48

Psychogenic Non‐Epilepsy Seizures (PNES)

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Usually witnesses by someone Awareness of surroundings Duration much longer than typical seizure

Question 49

An inability to copy or assemble items in two-or-three dimensional space is called:

Answer 49

constructional apraxia

Question 50

What term means an impaired ability to recognize and identify visual information?

Answer 50

Visual Agnosia