PSY3032 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Circumlocution, Endocrine Disease, Vascular Dementia
14 Aug 2018
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Sophie was 51 when she was diagnosed with ad. She was still concerned and went to the psychologist: the psychologist gave a neuro physical assessment that included the revised wechsler adult. Intelligence scale, the wechsler memory scale and the rey complex figure: she was pleased with the results and scored average across all the tests except for the. Rey figure delayed recall which fell two standard deviations below the average score for a woman sophie"s age: the psychologist attributed this to fatigue and anxiety and that sophie was probably imagining her memory difficulties. Issue here is that the psychologist was not fully trained in neuropsychology: she mistook an average score for a normal score whereas she should have compared it with an estimate of sophie"s premorbid abilities. Given her journalistic talents it is very unlikely to have scored average on those scales.
