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True/False: Self-injurous behavior is not a criterion for Borderline Personality Disorder.
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True.
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There are ___ times more MR children in developing countries than in the U.S.
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2.5
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Why would a neurologist need to see a MR patient?
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They have higher rates of seizures.
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Where do the majority of MR patients live?
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With their family (60%).
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Why are Down Syndrome patients living longer these days?
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Our ability to correct septal defects (cushion defects).
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When a Down Syndrome patient reaches 60 what they inevitably develop what?
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Dementia (specifically Alzheimer's Disease)
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What is a mental disorder characterized by a disorder of speech, lack of social connectedness, and programmed and repetitive behaviors.
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Autism
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True/False: Many autistic patients are not deficient in intellectual function.
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True
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What is a mental disorder where patients have trouble with social interaction and lack appropriate social behavior?
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Asperger's (Remember: "You're acting like an ass --- berger.")
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Where is the isolate intellectual deficit occuring in patients with a learning disability?
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supratemporal plane
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What is the IQ cutoff for MR?
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70
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At what age is intellectual disability defined before?
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18
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Intelligence may correlate with increases in what area of the brain?
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Frontal grey matter
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True/False: Brain size, weight, and surface anatomy correlate with intelligence.
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False
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Which three brain regions are inheritible?
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Broca's, Wernicke's, and frontal grey matter
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List some determinants of brain development.
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socio-economic status, genetics, education, maternal substance abuse, maternal/infant nutrition, systemic disease
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Neuralation occurs up until how many weeks of gestation?
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24
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Neuron migration is usually completed by which week?
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40 (12-40)
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When is myelenation completed?
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Around 20 years.
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True/False: The brain is hard-wired by adolesence.
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False. (Not until around age 30)
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Frontal and temporal grey matter decrease during which stage of life?
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Adolesence
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When does scizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses present?
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Adolesence
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The majority of MR cases are caused by what?
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Unknown -- idiopathic (30-40%)
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True/False: Persons with autism or DS typically have normal appearing brains.
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True
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Supra-temporal plane dysfunction causes ____.
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schizophrenia
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Typical presentation of Trisomy 13 (Patau's Syndrome) is _____.
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Holoprosencephaly
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Polymicrogyria is caused by dysfunction of neuron ____.
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migration (Neurons are fixed in the white matter.)
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Cerebral palsy typically presents with _____.
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quadriparesis,dementia, sometimes intellectual defects
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Germinal matrix hemorrhages typicall occur during which weeks of gestation?
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24 to 30
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Germinal matrix hemorrhages bleed into what area?
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Ventricular area
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True/False: Males and females are equally at risk for childhood stroke.
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False. Males more at risk, especially African Americans.
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Strokes in children are easier/harder to recover from than adult strokes?
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Easier, b/c child brains are more plastic. Functions reassigned to other areas to compensate.
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List some neuropsychiatric complications of Sickle Cell Disease.
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decrease in IQ, attention, and executive function
increase in psychiatric disorders |
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List some effects of cocaine on brain development.
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increase of MR, developmental delay, migration abnormalities
smaller head circumference and lower birthweight decrease in cortical neurons (neurotoxic) |
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True/False: Classical conditioning is less effective in MR patients.
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False, b/c sophisticated reasoning is usually absent
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True/False: Medication for behavior problems do not work well in MR patients.
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True
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