ASPPB Neuropsychology 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which lobe is primarily responsible for processing auditory information?
- Frontal lobe
- Parietal lobe
- Temporal lobe (Correct answer)
- Occipital lobe
Correct answer: Temporal lobe
The temporal lobe contains the primary auditory cortex (Heschl's gyrus) and is central to auditory processing.
Question 2: A patient with damage to the right parietal lobe most commonly presents with:
- Broca's aphasia
- Left hemispatial neglect (Correct answer)
- Prosopagnosia
- Anterograde amnesia
Correct answer: Left hemispatial neglect
Right parietal lesions typically produce contralateral (left) hemispatial neglect, where patients fail to attend to the left side of space.
Question 3: The Trail Making Test Part B primarily assesses:
- Verbal fluency
- Visuospatial memory
- Cognitive flexibility and set-shifting (Correct answer)
- Sustained attention
Correct answer: Cognitive flexibility and set-shifting
TMT-B requires alternating between numbers and letters, making it a sensitive measure of cognitive flexibility and executive set-shifting.
Question 4: Which neurotransmitter system is most directly implicated in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease?
- Serotonergic
- Dopaminergic (Correct answer)
- Cholinergic
- GABAergic
Correct answer: Dopaminergic
Parkinson's disease results from degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.
Question 5: In neuropsychological assessment, the Boston Naming Test measures:
- Confrontation naming ability (Correct answer)
- Verbal working memory
- Category fluency
- Reading decoding
Correct answer: Confrontation naming ability
The BNT assesses confrontation naming by asking patients to name line-drawn pictures of objects with increasing difficulty.
Question 6: Which structure connects the two cerebral hemispheres and is involved in interhemispheric communication?
- Hippocampus
- Corpus callosum (Correct answer)
- Thalamus
- Basal ganglia
Correct answer: Corpus callosum
The corpus callosum is the largest white matter commissure, enabling communication between the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
Question 7: A patient who cannot recognize familiar faces despite intact basic vision most likely has damage to the:
- Primary visual cortex
- Fusiform face area in the temporal lobe (Correct answer)
- Superior parietal lobule
- Prefrontal cortex
Correct answer: Fusiform face area in the temporal lobe
Prosopagnosia results from damage to the fusiform face area (FFA) in the right inferior temporal lobe.
ASPPB Neuropsychology 2
Which lobe is primarily responsible for processing auditory information?