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Question 1
Environmental hazards and cognitive function are data needed for the personal and social
history section of a neurologic assessment for:
Response Exposure to lead, arsenic, insecticides, organic solvents, dangerous
Feedback: equipment, and work at heights or in water are important factors to
consider in the personal and social history of all patients.
Question 2
You have asked a patient to close his eyes and identify an object placed in his hand. You are
evaluating:
Response Stereognosis is the ability to recognize an object through touch and
Feedback: manipulation. Tactile agnosia, an inability to recognize objects by touch,
suggests a parietal lobe lesion. Graphesthesia tests the patient s ability to
identify the figure being drawn on their palm. The vibratory sense uses a
tuning fork placed on a bony prominence. Two-point discrimination uses
two sharp objects to determine the distance at which the patient can no
longer distinguish the two points. The extinction phenomenon tests sensation