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inability to recognize familiar objects with one form of sense
Agnosia
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inability to initiate movement
Akinesia
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disturbance to language that results in errors in word choice, comprehension, or syntax.
Aphasia
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what are the three types of aphasia?
- Expressive/Broca's: .
- severe verbal impairment with expression, also with object naming, and writing. seen with right hemiplegia.
- Global:
- most common form with reduced speech, comprehension, recognition, and writing.
- Receptive/Wernicke's:
- severe auditory comprehension disturbance. reading, writing, and word recognition impaired.
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inability to perform movements previously learned even though there is no loss of strength, coordination, sensation, or comprehension.
Apraxia
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Name the two types of apraxia.
- Ideational:
- person doesn't have the "idea" of how to do a routine task. (ie brushing teeth)
- Ideomotor:
- person can't do a task on command but can do it spontaneously.
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Inability to recognize objects by touch alone.
Astereognosis
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inability to move muscles together in a coordinated manner.
Asynergia
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uncoordinated movement, especially with gait.
Ataxia
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slow, involuntary, worm like, twisting motions. Seen with Cerebral Palsy
Athetosis
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rapid, involuntary jerky movement. seen with Huntington's chorea
Chorea
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contraction of the extensor muscles of the upper & lower extremities because of an injury at the level of the brain stem.
Decerebrate rigidity
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contraction of the flexor muscles of the upper extremities with contraction of the extensor muscles of the lower extremities
Decorticate rigidity
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inability to judge distances.
Dysmetria: seen with cerebellar dysfunction
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lack of awareness of the relationship of one's own body parts
Somatoagnosia
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visual deficit of either right or left halves of both eyes secondary to damage to contralateral optic tract.
homonymous hemianopsia
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visual deficits of outside halves of both eyes secondary to optic chasm injury. aka tunnel vision
Bitemporal hemianopsia
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blindness in one eye secondary to optic nerve damage
Monocular blindness
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