lezione 14

Which demographic group most often suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI)? (13). a) young adult males. b) young girls. c) elderly women. d) none of the listed categories.

Which of the following tests is not very informative for specifically assessing executive deficits typical of TBI? (14). a) Tower of London. b) Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. c) digit span. d) phonological verbal fluency.

Which of the following is a region with a high frequency of cortical contusion? (14). a) dorsomesial frontal regions. b) the base of the frontal lobes. c) parietal regions. d) ventral occipitotemporal regions.

What was the name of the patient with frontal behavioral syndrome redescribed by Damasio et al. in 1994? (14). a) James Joyce. b) William James. c) Henry Molaison. d) Phineas Gage.

Which cause of traumatic brain injury increases in frequency with population aging? (14). a) self-harm. b) falls. c) assaults. d) road traffic accidents.

Which lesion site correlates with behavioral deficits in TBI patients? (14). a) basal frontal lesion. b) temporopolar lesions. c) lesions of the occipital white matter. d) none of the answers is correct.

Which of these mechanisms is associated with diffuse axonal injury? (14). a) massive calcium influx into axons. b) sudden stretching of axons. c) all of the above. d) accumulation of axonal transport components upstream of the tear point.

Malfunction of which brain region is associated with immediate coma in diffuse axonal injury? (14). a) ascending reticular formation. b) internal capsule. c) spinal cord. d) corpus callosum.

Which deficit would make performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test uninterpretable? (14). a) deficit in shape discrimination. b) deficit in number sense. c) color blindness. d) all the deficits listed.

The neuropsychological deficit after severe TBI is... (14). a) purely cortical. b) similar to that of Parkinson’s disease. c) purely subcortical. d) mixed, with cortical and subcortical components.

By how many times does the likelihood of brain damage increase in TBI with skull fracture? (14). a) 0.5. b) 20. c) 10. d) 50.

Which of the following consequences of TBI is associated with potentially fatal intracranial hypertension? (14). a) epidural hematoma. b) subdural hematoma. c) focal axonal injury. d) none of the answers is correct.

Which concomitant disorder makes performance on a prose memory test difficult to interpret? (14). a) constructional apraxia. b) reduced spatial span. c) aphasia. d) reduced verbal span.

Which episodic memory test is typically used in the evaluation of TBI patients in the chronic phase? (14). a) digit span. b) motor skill learning. c) spatial path learning test (Corsi span). d) prose memory test.

Which of the following deficits is never observed as an outcome of traumatic brain injury? (14). a) cortical blindness. b) psychomotor slowing. c) all outcomes are possible. d) aphasia.