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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
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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
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The inability to recognize and name objects, faces, voices, or places
Answer: agnosia
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Problem 5: Lost in the LabyrinthNeurocognitive Disorders (NCD) → damage or abnormalities in the brain regions that
influence thought and behaviour. They are a result of either cerebrovascular disease,
physical brain trauma, or a genetic predisposition. The results of NCD are impairments in
cognitive functioning, temperament, personality, and behavioural deficits.
S YMPTOMOLOGY OF NCD:
1. Learning and Memory Deficits
Simply referred to as amnesia, patients are unable to learn new information and have
difficulty in remembering recent or distant events. A form of amnesia that specifically refers
to memory loss beginning after a traumatic brain injury is anterograde amnesia.
Interestingly, patients retain their memories from before the event, but may have trouble
retrieving short-term memories.
2. Attention and Arousal Deficits
Patients with attention and arousal deficits can be easily distracted, may require more
time to make decisions, and present difficulties even when performing well-learned tasks
such as driving and writing.
3. Executive Function Deficits
Executive functions refer to complex behaviours that are controlled by the prefrontal
cortex. Damage to that are results in an inability to effectively problem solve, plan, initiate
conversation, organise, regulate emotions, and inhibit responses to name a few.
4. Aphasia
Aphasia can manifest as a difficulty in understanding or producing speech and is the
most common symptom of NCD. Two types of aphasia are fluent aphasia and non-fluent
aphasia. Fluent aphasia, also called Wernicke’s aphasia, is characterized by a deficit in
producing coherent speech as a result of incoherent thoughts and is related to damage just
behind the frontal lobe. Non-fluent aphasia, or else Broca’s aphasia, is a difficulty in
producing speech. It is associated to damage to the left frontal lobe.
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