You have a patient that has had a left temporal lobectomy as a result of an...
You have a patient that has had a left temporal lobectomy as a result of an operation for cancer. On what IQ tests do you expect to see a deterioration in postoperative scores?
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Neuropsychological tests and fMRI, methods are considered to have the greatest predictive ability for memory impairment. Other less frequently used techniques included the Wada test and FDG-PET.
Post operative- Intellectual functioning can be measured using the techniques like WAIS-III UK,15 yielding a full-scale IQ (FSIQ), verbal IQ (VIQ), and performance IQ (PIQ).
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