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IntroductionResults and Methodologies
Locating the Lesions Psychological Tests
Summary and Conclusions
Nicole Neil
Introduction
Subject Age of Injury Age at Test Source of InjuryBeth Birth 12 Hypoxia (birth trauma)
Jon 4 16 Hypoxia (convulsive seizures)
Kate 9 19 Hypoxia (seizures)
Mudra Bhatt
Hippocampal System
Episodic Memory
Hippocampal System
EpisodicMemory
SemanticMemory
SemanticMemory
Underlying Cortices
Nicole Neil
Methods Results
Volumetric Measurements
Hippocampus abnormally
small
T2 Relaxometry Remaining hippocampal
tissue severely compromised
Proton Magnetic Spectroscopy
Temporal Lobe normal
Molly O’Brien & James Guse
Parental Questionnaire Used Riverhead Mead Test to confirm
degree of impairment:
spatial temporal episodic
Molly O’Brien & James Guse
Copy of the Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure and 40-min delayed reproduction of it.
Normal control, copy and delayed reproduction by a typical 13-year-old.
Psychological TestsMolly O’Brien & James Guse
Molly O’Brien & James Guse
VIQ PIQ MQ
0
20
40
60
80
100
120Multiple IQ Comparisons
Beth
Jon
Kate
Normal
Standardized tests for IQ were done on all three children and compared to norms (green),
VIQ: Verbal Intellgence QuotientPIQ: PerformaceMQ:Memory Quotient
Molly O’Brien & James Guse
Working Memory
Combined foreward and reverse w.m. span
Normal
Kate
Jon
Beth
Working memory is at par with normal controls (green)!
Semantic (Intact)
Episodic (Damaged)
Verbal IQ Parent Report
Reading Comprehension Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure
Spelling* (exception Jon) Verbal Recall Tests
Richa SharmaMolly O’Brien & James Guse
Hippocampal System
Episodic Memory
Hippocampal System
EpisodicMemory
SemanticMemory
SemanticMemory
Underlying Cortices
Richa Sharma
Richa Sharma
