109| Adult Fact-Finding Case 1
Navigating Neuropsychology
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The Importance of Context in the Assessment of a Stroke Patient
The patient denied most symptoms, cognitive and psychiatric. She has super vascular risk factors, blood pressure cholesterol, which makes stroke even a little bit more likely. We mostly ruled out other causes, TBI, seizure, it still could be some kind of infection. There are no occipital lobes, there are no vision problems that I'm noticing, there's no neglect or really anything else that tells me anterior versus posterior right now. Okay. Yeah. So she was motivated to do well in testing. Our patient denied most Symptoms, cognitive and Psychiatric. Those are reported more ongoing cognitive symptoms than the patient. On testing, stepping back and looking at her profile, memory is the biggest domain
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