Definition of various deficits Flashcards
Amnesia:
memory deficits
Agnosia:
recognition deficits
Aphasia:
language deficits
Apraxia:
motor function deficits
Acalculia:
calculation deficits
Geographic disorientation:
getting lost
Constructional deficits:
deficits in copying
or arranging shapes
Simultagnosia:
impaired integration of complex visual stimuli
Stereoagnosis:
inability to recognize object placed in the hand: tactile agnosia
Hemineglect:
inattention to (left) half of space
Executive functions
o Volition and purposive action
o Sequencing and planning
o Effective performanceo Social and self-awareness
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
- Affective or motivational symptoms
o Depression, anxiety, apathy, irritability, “mania”
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
-Perceptual disturbances
o Hallucinations, delusions
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
- Disturbance of basic drives
o Sleep, eating, sexual
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
- Disinhibited behaviors
o Sexually inappropriate, intrusive,
violent, or reckless behaviors, wandering, utilization behavior
