Definition quiz Flashcards
Although alert and socially responsive, the patient can neither initiate speech nor follow verbal commands
Global Aphasia
You attempt to explain dietary restrictions to an adult-onset diabetic who is reticent about changing her eating habits. She has unusual difficulty retaining your instructions.
selective inattention
A man discusses a murder he recently committed without showing any trace of feeling for himself or his victim.
flat affect
Any unexpected sound or movement draws the patient’s apprehensive attention. As you talk, the patient’s eyes continually scan the room.
hypervigilance
In describing her marriage, a woman is sobbing bitterly one moment, then laughing wildly the next.
labile affect
A new patient talks rapidly for half an hour in a loud, angry tone, without any apparent need for prompting or encouragement.
pressured speech
Your patient’s parents and teachers remark that she has been unusually tense and whiny over recent weeks.
dysphoric emotion
A monument salesman is observed making coarse jokes in the presence of grieving customers.
expansive emotion
An elderly woman seems unable to understand your words and speaks gibberish in reply. She responds well to gestures, however.
sensory aphasia
A moderately-talented executive joyfully explains his plan to take control of his company and lead it to industry dominance.
euphoric
An elderly man follows commands and communicates with gestures, but since his stroke, he can’t put his thoughts into words.
motor aphasia
Your patient characteristically responds with appropriate gravity to serious topics, and with appropriate levity to humor.
euthymic
