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1.6 Clinical Psychoogy Problem 5 Summary
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A complete summary of problem 5 in the clinical psychology block or neurocognitive disorders, a.k.a. neurodegenerative disorders.
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1.
What are the 3 possible causes of neurocognitive disorders?
Answer: 1. cerebrovascular disease 2. genetic predisposition 3. physical brain trauma
2.
The form of amnesia where the individual retains pre-trauma memories, but has difficulties with post-trauma short-term memory
Answer: anterograde amnesia
3.
the difficulty in learning new information or retrieving memories
Answer: amnesia
4.
damage to which brain area can attribute to executive functioning deficits?
Answer: the prefrontal cortex
5.
a difficulty in understanding or producing speech
Answer: aphasia
6.
the form of aphasia where the patient has trouble producing coherent speech
Answer: Wernicke\'s (fluent) aphasia
7.
the form of aphasia where the patient has a difficulty in producing any form of speech
Answer: Broca\'s (non-fluent) aphasia
8.
Damage to the left frontal lobe is associated with which form of aphasia?
Answer: Broca\'s aphasia
9.
Damage behind the frontal lobe is associated with which form of aphasia?
Answer: Wernicke\'s aphasia
10.
The inability to recognize and name objects, faces, voices, or places
Answer: agnosia
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