Quiz 07/27/2022 (2)

An 85-year-old woman presents to the hospital with an acute onset of language impairment. On examination, she has difficulty with comprehension but her verbal fluency and repetition are normal. Which of the following best describes her deficits?

A 65-year-old female presents with an abrupt onset of akinetic mutism, lack of motivation, apathy, bilateral leg weakness, and incontinence. A lesion to which of the following vascular territories could explain her symptoms?

A 56-year-old right-handed man is brought to the emergency room for new-onset aphasia. On exam, he cannot write, perform simple calculations, name his own fingers, and cannot distinguish with accuracy between his right and left sides. A lesion in which area can explain his symptoms?

A 56-year-old male presents with unusual behavior of compulsive eating and inappropriate sexual gestures. On exam, the patient has difficulty keeping his hands to himself and is distracted by the objects in his bed. A lesion in which area(s) of the brain would explain this syndrome?

A 68-year-old man with an unknown past medical history presents with language difficulties. His spontaneous speech is non-fluent. He has anomia and difficulty following complex tasks, but intact repetition. A solitary lesion in which of the following regions can present with these symptoms?

A 73-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and atrial fibrillation presented to the emergency room with an acute onset of language difficulties. On examination, his speech is nonsensical but fluent. He is unable to understand commands, but repetition is intact. Which of the following best describes this patient’s aphasia?

A 65-year-old male comes into the office with his wife for follow-up after a recent hospitalization for HSV encephalitis.  The wife says before his hospitalization, he used to be a quiet, shy man but recently has been making sexually inappropriate remarks to women at the park. The patient also has an increase in appetite and an urge to touch everything at the grocery store. Based on his cognitive deficits, which of the following areas of the brain is likely affected?

An MRI is ordered on a man with a known history of ischemic stroke and bilateral upper extremity weakness. Which of the following was the most likely cause of his ischemic injury?

A 75-year-old female with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation and hypertension presents to the ER with garbled speech. She seems unaware that her speech is nonsensical. On physical exam, she is unable to follow verbal commands but can understand visual cues. An ischemic injury is suspected. If this is true, a brain MRI would show which of the following areas of the brain is/are affected?

Socially inappropriate behavior, disinhibition, echopraxia, and utilization behavior are typically seen in which of the following?

A 39-year-old male presents to the clinic for hallucinations. His medical history is only remarkable for a chemical accident at his job resulting in severe corneal scarring bilaterally, for which he now requires a seeing-eye dog.

His hallucinations are usually of tall figures dressed in black with long fingers. He is not frightened by this because he knows they are not real. He denies other neurologic deficits, denies auditory hallucinations and describes his mood as “good”. The rest of his exam is normal.

You are familiar with the underlying syndrome the patient is experiencing. You inform the patient that in the rest of the population the most common cause of this syndrome is actually…

A 65-year-old female patient presents with right homonymous hemianopsia for the past week. She also says she has difficulty reading but no problems with writing. Which of the following area of the brain is likely affected?

A 75-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension on lisinopril presents to the emergency department with weakness on the left side of the body and a drooping right eye. On exam, her right eye is inferiorly and laterally deviated. This pupil is also non-reactive. Her strength is 3/5 on the left side. Where is this patient’s lesion?