Abnormal neuro assessments

Question 1

Altered consciousness

Answer 1

stuporous, mute, diminished respinse to verbal cues or pain

Question 2

anosognasia

Answer 2

inability to recognize body defect or disease

Question 3

aphasia, dysphagia

Answer 3

loss of or impaired language faculty (comprehension, expression, both)

Question 4

dysarthria

Answer 4

lack of coordination in articulating speech

Question 5

anisocoria

Answer 5

inequality of pupil size

Question 6

diplopia

Answer 6

double vision

Question 7

homonymous hemianopsia

Answer 7

loss of vision in one side of visual field

Question 8

dysphagia

Answer 8

difficulty swallowing

Question 9

ophthalmoplegia

Answer 9

paralysis of the eye muscles

Question 10

papilledema

Answer 10

• choked disc

- swelling of optic nerve head

Question 11

apraxia

Answer 11

inability to perform learned movements despite having desire and physical ability to perform them

Question 12

ataxia

Answer 12

lack of coordination of movement

Question 13

dyskinesia

Answer 13

impairment of voluntary movement, resulting in fragmentary or incomplete movements

Question 14

hemiplegia

Answer 14

paralysis of one side

Question 15

nystagmus

Answer 15

jerking or bobbing of eyes as they track moving object

Question 16

analgesia

Answer 16

loss of pain sensation

Question 17

anesthesia

Answer 17

absence of sensation

Question 18

paresthesia

Answer 18

alteration in sensation

Question 19

astereognosis

Answer 19

inability to recognize form of object by touch

Question 20

extensor plantar response

Answer 20

toes pointed up with plantar stimulation

Question 21

deep tendon reflexes

Answer 21

diminished or absent motor response

Question 22

atonic bladder

Answer 22

absence of muscle tone , contractility , enlargement of capacity, overflow with large residual, inability to voluntarily empty

Question 23

hypotonic bladder

Answer 23

less than normal, more than atonic

Question 24

hypertonic bladder

Answer 24

increased muscle tone, diminished capacity, reflex emptying drippling, incontinence

Question 25

paraplegia

Answer 25

paralysis of lower extremities

Question 26

tetraplegia (quadriplegia)

Answer 26

paralysis of all extremities

Question 27

Agnosia

Answer 27

Unable to recognize familiar objects

Question 28

Alexia

Answer 28

Reading difficulty

Question 29

Agraphia

Answer 29

Writing difficulty

Question 30

Hemianopsia

Answer 30

Loss if visual field in 1 or both eyes

Question 31

Dysarthria

Answer 31

Disturbance of muscle control with speech

Question 32

Homonymous hemianopsia

Answer 32

Blindness in same half of visual shield

Question 33

Ptosis

Answer 33

Drooping eyelid

Question 34

Decerebrate

Answer 34

Rigid extension , hyperpronation of forearms and plantar flexion of feet

• sign of dysfunction at midbrain or upper pons
• elicited by painful response

Question 35

Decoriate

Answer 35

Flexion of arms , wrists and fingers with adduction in upper extremities and extension internal rotation and plantar flexion
- severe dysfunction of cerebral cortex above midbrain - upper and higher functioning part of our brains