Andrew suffers from late-stage syphilis. He has slurred speech, impaired motor coordination,
and is steadily developing motor paralysis. He is irritable, but lacks normal responsiveness to
joyous or upsetting events.
He has deteriorated intellectually, and has completely abandoned
personal grooming and hygiene. His condition is called ______.
a. Huntington's disease c. general paresis
b. Addison's disease d. meningitis
C
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Aparna works in a hospital. She administers neuropsychological assessments to patients that may have brain injury or neurodegenerative diseases. In her assessments, she is most likely to begin by administering ____ and then following up with ____ as relevant to each patient
a. ?psychoactive drugs; psychotherapy b. ?psychotherapy; psychoactive drugs c. ?a standard battery of tests; a set of uniquely tailored assessments d. ?a set of uniquely tailored assessments; a standard battery of tests
When approximately ________ of your brain waves are delta waves, you have entered NREM stage 3 sleep
a) 10 b) 20 c) 40 d) 75
The ability to think about your own memory is __________
a) formal operations. b) concrete operations. c) metamemory. d) abstract memory.
A technique called __________ involves surgically implanting electrodes in specific areas of the brain and stimulating the electrodes and surrounding brain tissue by a pacemaker-like device placed in the chest wall
a. repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation c. magnetic resonance stimulation b. deep brain stimulation d. positron emission stimulation