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Upon reviewing a chart, you note the patient to have right total blindness after a neurological infarct. You know the lesion is located where:

Fill in the blank: Failure of the _________ to adequately cover the trachea puts a patient at risk of pneumonia. 

Why do persons with homonymous hemianopsia often experience difficulty reading?

Based on good clinical reasoning, all of the following techniques are ones you might teach to an individual with a SCI at the C6 level to substitute for lost motion EXCEPT:

In the above question (#11), what would be the BEST restorative approach to start with to treat this limitation?

Which of the following statements about aphasia is true? 

A 10 year-old boy with a complete SCI at C7 asks the OT what he can do with his friends when they come over. The most appropriate activity for the therapist to recommend would be:

When choosing a target behavior to change, you maximize your chances of success by

If that same client (Question #1) had a lesion that affected the area in which information passes along the temporal loop, you would expect to see difficulties in:

All of the following are positive effects that exercise has on the brain EXCEPT