Brain Problems Flashcards
1
Q
Prosopagnosia
A
Face blindness
Caused by damage to fusiform gyrus
‘Proso’ = face
2
Q
Visual agnosia
A
A person can see but cannot recognise or interpret visual information
3
Q
Cerebral akinetopsia
A
Motion blindness - cannot perceive motion in three dimensions
4
Q
Optic ataxia
A
Inability to guide reaching movements using visual information
5
Q
Simultanagnosia
A
Inability to see more than one object at a time
6
Q
Cerebral achromatopsia
A
Patients cannot recognise colours
7
Q
Urbach-Weithe disease
A
Damage to amygdala - lack of fear and recognising fear on others
8
Q
Amusia
A
Musical deafness (either receptive or expressive)
9
Q
Aphasia
A
Impairment of language (speech and reading/writing)
