Definitions Flashcards
Sensory inattention
A patient with this will have normal sensation if each side is tested unilaterally but will ignore the effected side if both sides are affected at once.
Apraxia
An inability to perform the motor planning required to perform an action, this can describe actions such as speech or walking
Astereognosis
I.E tactile agnosia. An inability to identify objects by touch alone. A patient with just this would be able to identify an object by sight
Inferior homonymous quadrantopia
A loss of vision in both eyes of the same quadrant in the lower corner of both eyes
Alexia
Loss of ability to read
Acalculia
Inability to perform simple calculations
Finger agnosia
Inability to distinguish between other peoples and their own finger
Gerstmann’s syndrome
lesion of the dominant parietal causing Alexia acalculia, finger agnosia and right left disorientation
Cortical blindness
Loss of vision due to damage to the brain’s cortex
Visual agnosia
Inability to recognize things by sight alone
Wernicke’s aphasia
Dysfunction of Wernicke’s region causing word substitution, neologisms but preserved fluency of speech
Auditory agnosia
Inability to recognize sounds.
Prosopagnosia
Difficulty recognizing faces
Expressive aphasia
Also known as Broca’s aphasia, Speech is non fluent, labored and halting
Perseveration
The repetition of a particular word or phrase response in spite of absence or cessation of stimulus
