PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vascular Dementia, Short-Term Memory, Frontotemporal Dementia
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Behavioral changes and multiple factors: lesion size and location. Depending on where you test the patient, you will have a different test profile: duration of condition. What happens with a longer duration: age at onset. Likelihood of comorbid disorders increases with age. Can impact recovery: pattern of cerebral dominance. Left-handed or right-handed fmri see which half of the brain lights up when you ask them to speak. Any sort of ways to make up for a deficit? (i. e. other stronger areas of the brain: life situation, social background. Are they keeping up with treatment (therapy and/or medication) Only the test administrator in the room with the examinee. Can help if they have test anxiety. Adds validity if they still get the same score. Diffuse brain diseases do not affect all brain structures equally, and it is rare to find a focal injury in which some diffuse repercussions do not take place either temporarily or ultimately.
