PRITE PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
UPDATED COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS PREMIUM REVIEW SHEET
●● Amnesia preceded by epigastric sensation and fear are associated
with electrical abnormality where?
Answer: Temporal lobe
●● Memory loss pattern in dissociative amnesia
Answer: Memory loss occurs for a discrete period of time
●● Amnesia characterized by loss of memory of events that occur after
onset of etiologic condition or agent
Answer: Anterograde
●● What psychoactive drug produces amnesia?
Answer: Alcohol
●● Pt w/ strange behavior answers appropriately w/ fluent speech but no
ability to retain new info. Episode lasts 6 hr then back to normal. No
recollection of events. Dx?
Answer: Transient global amnesia
,●● Visual problem in pituitary tumor compressing optic chiasm
Answer: Bitemporal Hemianopsia
●● Pt reports hearing voices of someone not present; stops moving,
stares blankly, repetitively picks at clothing, does not respond to
Qs/commands x several min. The confusion resolves after 15 mins 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 hrs. CVA ruled out. Pt keeps asking what is happening. What
med 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 face and arms. Urinary
incontinence and abulia. Where is the lesion?
Answer: Anterior Cerebral Artery
,(Abulia = an absence of willpower or an inability to act decisively, as a
symptom of mental illness.)
●● 32 y/o pt 1-month history of worsening headaches, episodic mood
swings and occasional hallucinations with visual, tactile and auditory
content. CT head reveals tumor where:
Answer: Temporal lobe
●● Syndrome characterized by fluent speech, preserved comprehension,
inability to repeat, w/o associated signs. Location of lesion in the brain?
Answer: Supramarginal gyrus or insula
●● Acute onset of hemiballismus of LUE & LLE. MRI is most likely to
show lesion located where?
Answer: Subthalamic nucleus
●● Left sided hemi-neglect is associated with lesion located where?
Answer: Right Parietal Lobe
●● 60M right-handed, getting lost, only writes on right half of paper.
Where is lesion
Answer: Right parietal
●● Which hormone secreted in functional pituitary adenoma:
, Answer: Prolactin
●● CT & MRI show ventriculomegaly are out of proportion to sulcal
atrophy. This is suggestive of what diagnosis?
Answer: Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
●● 5 y/o with 4 month history of morning HA, vomiting, and recent
problems with gait, falls, and diplopia
Answer: Medulloblastoma
●● 20 y/o with 1 yr of bitemporal headaches, polydipsia, polyuria,
bulimia. For 2 months emotional outburst aggressive and transient
confusion neuro exam normal. What will MRI of brain show?
Answer: Hypothalamic tumor
●● Location of lesion: previously pleasant person becomes profane and
irresponsible over 6 months:
Answer: Frontal lobe
●● Unilateral hearing loss with vertigo, unsteadiness with falls and
headaches, mild facial weakness and ipsilateral limb ataxia is most
commonly associated with tumors in what locations:
Answer: Cerebellopontine angle
UPDATED COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS PREMIUM REVIEW SHEET
●● Amnesia preceded by epigastric sensation and fear are associated
with electrical abnormality where?
Answer: Temporal lobe
●● Memory loss pattern in dissociative amnesia
Answer: Memory loss occurs for a discrete period of time
●● Amnesia characterized by loss of memory of events that occur after
onset of etiologic condition or agent
Answer: Anterograde
●● What psychoactive drug produces amnesia?
Answer: Alcohol
●● Pt w/ strange behavior answers appropriately w/ fluent speech but no
ability to retain new info. Episode lasts 6 hr then back to normal. No
recollection of events. Dx?
Answer: Transient global amnesia
,●● Visual problem in pituitary tumor compressing optic chiasm
Answer: Bitemporal Hemianopsia
●● Pt reports hearing voices of someone not present; stops moving,
stares blankly, repetitively picks at clothing, does not respond to
Qs/commands x several min. The confusion resolves after 15 mins 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 hrs. CVA ruled out. Pt keeps asking what is happening. What
med 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 face and arms. Urinary
incontinence and abulia. Where is the lesion?
Answer: Anterior Cerebral Artery
,(Abulia = an absence of willpower or an inability to act decisively, as a
symptom of mental illness.)
●● 32 y/o pt 1-month history of worsening headaches, episodic mood
swings and occasional hallucinations with visual, tactile and auditory
content. CT head reveals tumor where:
Answer: Temporal lobe
●● Syndrome characterized by fluent speech, preserved comprehension,
inability to repeat, w/o associated signs. Location of lesion in the brain?
Answer: Supramarginal gyrus or insula
●● Acute onset of hemiballismus of LUE & LLE. MRI is most likely to
show lesion located where?
Answer: Subthalamic nucleus
●● Left sided hemi-neglect is associated with lesion located where?
Answer: Right Parietal Lobe
●● 60M right-handed, getting lost, only writes on right half of paper.
Where is lesion
Answer: Right parietal
●● Which hormone secreted in functional pituitary adenoma:
, Answer: Prolactin
●● CT & MRI show ventriculomegaly are out of proportion to sulcal
atrophy. This is suggestive of what diagnosis?
Answer: Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
●● 5 y/o with 4 month history of morning HA, vomiting, and recent
problems with gait, falls, and diplopia
Answer: Medulloblastoma
●● 20 y/o with 1 yr of bitemporal headaches, polydipsia, polyuria,
bulimia. For 2 months emotional outburst aggressive and transient
confusion neuro exam normal. What will MRI of brain show?
Answer: Hypothalamic tumor
●● Location of lesion: previously pleasant person becomes profane and
irresponsible over 6 months:
Answer: Frontal lobe
●● Unilateral hearing loss with vertigo, unsteadiness with falls and
headaches, mild facial weakness and ipsilateral limb ataxia is most
commonly associated with tumors in what locations:
Answer: Cerebellopontine angle
