A patient walks with a jerky, uncoordinated motion. A good preliminary diagnosis would be damage to the __________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Diagnosis of AD/HD depends on a patient being rated against three categories of symptoms. Two of the categories are Inattention and Hyperactivity. What is the third?

   A. Disruptiveness
   B. Aggression
   C. Impulsivity
   D. Intelligence

2. In speech impairment from brain damage, damage has occurred in ____________?

   A. right cerebral hemisphere
   B. left cerebral hemisphere
   C. regular formation
   D. corpus collosum

3. Which, if any, of the following are true? 1: Each region of the neocortex may contain more specialized modules. 2: Damage to a given volume of neocortical tissue tends to be more profoundly disabling than damage to the same volume of the subcortex. 3: Functional neuro-imaging methods allow us to observe which brain regions are active.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. None

4. After Rauf’s serious snow-skiing accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke’s area. Because of the damage, Rauf is most likely to experience difficulty in:

   A. understanding what others are saying
   B. recognizing familiar faces
   C. pronouncing words correctly
   D. controlling voluntary muscles

5. The head injured patient lost the ability to breath. Autopsy revealed neural damage in the ____________?

   A. medulla
   B. midbrain
   C. cerebellum
   D. pons

6. The relationship between a child’s intellectual development and the age at which the child first walks is _____________?

   A. strong
   B. moderate
   C. nonexistent
   D. lower

7. To help him remember the order of ingredients in difficult recipes, master chef Zakir often associates them with the route he walks to work each day. Zakir is using which mnemonic technique?

   A. peg-word system
   B. acronyms
   C. the method of Loci
   D. chunking

8. Nami’s actions resemble movie stereotype of “crazy” behavior. Her personality disintegration is extreme. She engages in silly laughter, bizarre mannerisms, and obscene behavior. Her diagnosis is probably:

   A. paranoid schizophrenia
   B. borderline schizophrenia
   C. catatonic schizophrenia
   D. disorganized schizophrenia

9. Although many people tend to associate PTSD with war – related violence, it is actually the event which most often leads to a PTSD diagnosis

   A. Domestic violence
   B. Victims of robbery
   C. Car accident
   D. Rape

10. Jamil is in a constant state of anxiety and also has brief, sudden periods of panic. He also believes these periods of panic will occur when he’s in a public location: therefore, jim is afraid to leave his house.Jim’s diagnosis is:

    A. agoraphobia
    B. panic disorder
    C. panic disorder with agoraphobia
    D. panic disorder without agoraphobia