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Brain Function Test B

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Professional Clinical Neuropsychology (Brain Function) Quiz on Brain Function Test B, created by Eunho Lee on 31/12/2015.
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Question 1

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Modulation of which of the following neurotransmitter systems has been most linked to alterations in memory?
Answer
  • dopamine
  • serotonin
  • norepinephrine
  • acetylcholine

Question 2

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an Activity of which of the following neurotransmitter systems has been linked to reward and punishment?
Answer
  • dopamine
  • serotonin
  • norephinephrine
  • acetylchoine

Question 3

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Which of the following populations of research participants is not very important for neuropsychological research?
Answer
  • neurologically intact individuals
  • monkeys
  • patients with heart disease
  • patients with delineated brain damage

Question 4

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Which tract of nerve fibers connects the two hemispheres?
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  • the corpus callosum
  • the hippocampus
  • the arcuate fasciculus
  • the chiasma

Question 5

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Which is the correct term to indicate the surgical procedure by which one malformed hemisphere is removed to prevent epileptic activity in the remaining hemisphere?
Answer
  • the Wada test
  • the split-brain procedure
  • lobotomy
  • hemispherectomy

Question 6

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Which of the following is true with respect to the relation between gender and lateralization of brain functions?
Answer
  • There is very CLEAR and convincing evidence that women are MORE lateralized than men.
  • There is very CLEAR and convincing evidence that women are LESS lateralized than men.
  • It is often suggested that women are LESS lateralized than men, but the observed gender differences are actually quite SMALL.
  • It is often suggested that women are MORE lateralized than men, but the observed gender differences are actually quite SMALL.

Question 7

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Which of the following factors has been suggested to have influenced the development of lateralized brain functions?
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  • the fact that the human brain has become larger through evolution
  • the acquisition of communicative skills and language
  • the fact that people have become more and more intelligent during the last 500 years
  • the distinction between prehistoric societies that mainly hunted for food versus those that mainly were involved in agriculture

Question 8

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The basal ganglia are a collection of subcortical nuclei. Which of the following is not one of them?
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  • the dorsal raphe nucleus
  • the caudate nucleus
  • the putamen
  • the globus pallidus

Question 9

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Which of the following is NOT true?
Answer
  • Damage to cerebellum causes problems for the control of muscles which are situated contralateral to the lesion.
  • The cerebellum consists of three major parts: the vermis, the intermediate zone, and the lateral zone.
  • The cerebellum is important for the learning of skilled motor movements (e.g., such as learning to play table tennis).
  • Decomposition of movement is a compensatory strategy often used by patients with cerebellar damage

Question 10

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Which of the following brain area is very important for the creation of the motor programs, which are preprogrammed before the movement is actually carried out?
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  • the supplementary motor area
  • the premotor area
  • the primary motor cortex
  • the anterior cingulate

Question 11

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Which of the following statement is false?
Answer
  • There has never been a case of patient who is no longer able to objects, but can still recognize faces.
  • Patients suffering from prosopagnosia show different electrodermal skin response to familiar than to unfamiliar faces.
  • Some patients from suffereing prosopagnosia exhibit interference when asked to say someone's name, if the name is paired with incorrect face.
  • Cases have been reported of patients who are not longer able to identify fruits, but can still recognize vegetables.

Question 12

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Which of the following is NOT true?
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  • Judgment of line orientation (which cannot be verbally encoded) relies more on the right than on the left hemisphere.
  • Judgment of line orientation relies on extrastriate areas.
  • Left hemisphere damage has no effect on constructional abilities.
  • There is a left visual field advantage for the apprehension of geometric relations.

Question 13

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Shane is unable to touch his right toes with his right hand: Sometimes he touches his left toes, sometimes his right knee. He has no difficulties picking up or manipulating small objects which are placed at the same distance. Shane is likely to suffer from
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  • disturbed spatial memory
  • disturbed rotational skills
  • a disturbed body schema
  • a disturbed body sketch

Question 14

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Which test is often used to assess spatial short-term memory?
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  • the digit span test
  • the Wada test
  • the Corsi block tapping test
  • the Halstead-Reitan

Question 15

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What is the name of process by which our eyes jump from one location to another without processing of the intervening visual information?
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  • a fixation
  • a pulvinar
  • a saccade
  • a regression

Question 16

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Which of the following brain area is important for top-down attentional control?
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  • the hypothalamus
  • the cingulate cortex
  • the RAS
  • the frontal lobe

Question 17

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According to the network model of Mesulam, which brain area is most involved in motor programs for moving our attentional focus?
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  • frontal regions
  • the RAS
  • the anterior cingulate
  • the insular

Question 18

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?
Answer
  • Neglect is often due to damage to the parietal lobe.
  • Neglect always varies with sensory modality.
  • Sometimes patients suffering from neglect deny that certain body parts belong to them.
  • There are cases of neglect with respect to the depth plane, in which one region of space in depth (e.g. the near space) is ignored.

Question 19

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Patients who are suffering from an anterior aphasia are said to suffer from agrammatic aphasia. Which of the following statements is applicable to this syndrome?
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  • In this syndrome, only the production of grammatically correct sentences is impaired.
  • In this syndrome, only the comprehension of the syntatic markers needed for a correct interpretation of the sentences is impaired.
  • In this syndrome, both the production and comprehension of grammatical language components is impaired.
  • Despite the name of the syndrome, such patients experience no problems at all with respect to the production and comprehension of the grammatical components of language.

Question 20

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Which syndrome, caused by chronic alcohol abuse, is charaterized by amnesia due to damage to parts of the thalamus and hypothalamus?
Answer
  • Korsakoff's disease
  • Gerstmann syndrome
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Alzheimer's disease

Question 21

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Which of the following brain areas is very likely to be involved in the manipulation of the contents of the working memory buffer?
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  • the hippocampus
  • ventral prefrontal cortex
  • the basal ganglia
  • the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Question 22

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Executive functions are most likely to be impaired if the
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  • frontal lobe is damaged
  • temporal lobe is damaged
  • parietal lobe is damaged
  • occipital lobe is damaged

Question 23

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Which of the following tests/tasks is not especially used to assess executive functions?
Answer
  • the WCST
  • the Corsi Blocks Test
  • the Alternative Uses Test
  • a test of verbal fluency

Question 24

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Which of the following brain areas is especially important for evaluating the correctness of one's response?
Answer
  • the pons
  • the anterior cingulate cortex
  • the medulla
  • the arcuate fasiculus

Question 25

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Which of the following statements is TRUE?
Answer
  • Positive affect is associated with more activity over the right than over the left prefrontal cortex.
  • There is no asymmetry at all in prefrontal activation when people are experiencing an extremely negative emotion.
  • Right frontal damage can cause a euphoric-indifference reaction.
  • Right frontal damage can cause a catastrophic reaction.
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