Neuropsychiatry – 6

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1. Anosognosia is more likely to be associated with right than with left limb hemiplegia.
2. The hippocampus is supplied by the anterior cerebral artery.
3. In chronic fatigue syndrome, patients who attribute their symptoms to exclusively physical causes have a better prognosis.
4. Prion protein on tonsillar biopsy is highly specific for variant CJD.
5. Reverse calendar test performance is unimpaired in delirium tremens.
6. Delirium is associated with theta waves on the EEG.
7. The EEG during absence seizures is diagnostic.
8. Prolactin levels return to normal within 60 minutes following a _non-epileptic seizure.
9. Social judgement and decision-making are spared in lesions of the ventromedial frontal cortex.
10. The proteome is the total number of expressed proteins.
11. Head injury associated with amnesia lasting less than 24 hours is more likely to be associated with epilepsy.
12. HIV disease progression is measured by CD4 counts.
13. HIV infection is a predisposing factor for Alzheimer’s disease.
14. In dementia associated with Huntington’s disease, amnesia is similar for all decades of life.
15. The globus pallidus is part of the limbic system.
16. The recency effect is preserved in diencephalic amnesia.
17. Irritability in multiple sclerosis is often due to a depressive disorder.
18. Paralysis of vertical gaze is characteristically seen in normal pressure hydrocephalus.
19. Lewy bodies are found in Parkinson’s disease.
20. Hallucinations occur in acute intermittent porphyria.
21. The serial sevens test can provoke a catastrophic reaction in patients with dementia.
22. Delta waves are maximal in the second half of sleep.
23. Somnambulism occurs in sleep stages 3 and 4.
24. Depressive symptoms are less common after breast conserving surgery than radical mastectomy for cancer of the breast.
25. Hypothyroidism can cause hirsutism.