NINJA PRITE HIGH YIELD TEST BANK
PRACTICE QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS
DETAILED EXPLANATIONS VERIFIED
●● Amnesia preceded by epigastric sensation/fear are associated with
electrical abnormalities where?
Answer: Temporal lobe
●● Memory loss pattern in dissociative amnesia?
Answer: Occurs for a discrete period of time (episodic!)
●● Amnesia characterized by loss of memory of events, occur after
onset of etiologic condition or agent?
Answer: Anterograde
●● What psychoactive drug produces amnesia?
Answer: EtOH
●● Pt with strange behavior answers appropriately with fluent speech
but no ability to retain new information. Episode lasts 6 hours then back
to normal. No recollection of events. What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Transient global amnesia
, ●● Pt reports hearing voices of someone not present, stops moving,
stares blankly, repetitively picks at clothing, does not respond to
questions/commands for several minutes. The confusion resolves after
15 minutes but pt has no recollection of events. Likely what?
Answer: Complex partial seizure
●● 55 y/o pt BiB family after episode of amnesia/bewilderment lasting
several hours. CVA ruled out. Pt keeps asking what is happening. What
medication to administer at this point?
Answer: Observation with no pharmacological intervention
●● Which of the following diagnoses involves a sense of loss of identity,
often following a traumatic experience and associated with inability to
recall one's past?
Answer: Dissociative fugue
●● Contralateral leg weakness with sparing of the face and arms.
Urinary incontinence and abulia. Where is the lesion?
Answer: Anterior cerebral artery
●● Visual problem in pituitary tumor compressing optic chiasm (x10)?
Answer: Bitemporal hemianopsia
PRACTICE QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS
DETAILED EXPLANATIONS VERIFIED
●● Amnesia preceded by epigastric sensation/fear are associated with
electrical abnormalities where?
Answer: Temporal lobe
●● Memory loss pattern in dissociative amnesia?
Answer: Occurs for a discrete period of time (episodic!)
●● Amnesia characterized by loss of memory of events, occur after
onset of etiologic condition or agent?
Answer: Anterograde
●● What psychoactive drug produces amnesia?
Answer: EtOH
●● Pt with strange behavior answers appropriately with fluent speech
but no ability to retain new information. Episode lasts 6 hours then back
to normal. No recollection of events. What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Transient global amnesia
, ●● Pt reports hearing voices of someone not present, stops moving,
stares blankly, repetitively picks at clothing, does not respond to
questions/commands for several minutes. The confusion resolves after
15 minutes but pt has no recollection of events. Likely what?
Answer: Complex partial seizure
●● 55 y/o pt BiB family after episode of amnesia/bewilderment lasting
several hours. CVA ruled out. Pt keeps asking what is happening. What
medication to administer at this point?
Answer: Observation with no pharmacological intervention
●● Which of the following diagnoses involves a sense of loss of identity,
often following a traumatic experience and associated with inability to
recall one's past?
Answer: Dissociative fugue
●● Contralateral leg weakness with sparing of the face and arms.
Urinary incontinence and abulia. Where is the lesion?
Answer: Anterior cerebral artery
●● Visual problem in pituitary tumor compressing optic chiasm (x10)?
Answer: Bitemporal hemianopsia
