Solutions
Constructional Apraxia (details)✔✔LEFT
understands big picture, but not the details (missing window on house)
Limp Apraxia✔✔LEFT
cannot wave goodbye, use a hammer
Verbal Memory✔✔LEFT
AKA anomia
Visuospatial deficits:✔✔RIGHT
difficulty with judging distance, depth perception, directions, hand eye coordination (dressing)
Impaired visual perception✔✔RIGHT
identifying common objects, difference between objects
Hemispatial neglect✔✔RIGHT
unaware of one side of the body
Spatial memory✔✔RIGHT
remembering where keys are, how to walk around a building
Dyscalculia (spatial)✔✔RIGHT
,spatial aspects of math (order of operations, graph, rulers, maps
Constructional apraxia (Gestalt)✔✔RIGHT
understands details, not big picture (windows, but no house)
Dressing apraxia:✔✔RIGHT
difficulty getting dressed
Anosognosia✔✔RIGHT
lack of awareness/ denial of own disability
List the domains of a formal neuropsychological assessment. 10✔✔-Introduction
-Intellectual functioning
-Attention and Information Processing
-Memory
-Language
-Visuospatial Function
-Sensory & Motor Function
-Executive Function
-Psychological Factors
-Performance/ Symptom Validity
Domains of neuropsych assessment:
Introduction✔✔identify pt concerns/ questions/ hx/ circumstances/ records/ family POV
Domains of neuropsych assessment:
, Intellectual functioning✔✔Cornerstone of exam. Assess IQ.
Domains of neuropsych assessment:
Memory✔✔Verbal/visual, General, Attention, Concentration, Delayed
Domains of neuropsych assessment:
Language✔✔expressive/ comprehension/ verbal fluency
Domains of neuropsych assessment:
Visuospatial Function:✔✔assess visual construction ability/ abstract concept formation
Domains of neuropsych assessment:
Sensory & Motor Function:✔✔Assess if bilateral or unilateral issue. Grip strength/ tapping
Domains of neuropsych assessment:
Executive Function✔✔plan/ initiate independent activity, switch tasks, self-monitor
performance, inhibit inappropriate responses, problem-solving
Fasting glucose✔✔Glucose level after 8 hours of fasting.
Specificity✔✔Identifies patients without the disease; 100% specificity means no false positives.
Sensitivity✔✔Identifies patients with the disease; 100% sensitivity means no false negatives.
Incidence✔✔Number of new cases of a disease during a specific time period in a specific
population.