Diagnoses and Disorders Pt 1.

Question 1

Can someone with receptive aphasia participate in

sensory testing?

Answer 1

Individuals with this disorder cannot comprehend
spoken or written words or symbols. Individuals
cannot understand verbal directions or respond to
sensory stimuli.

Question 2

What is agnosia?

Answer 2

Agnosia is a category of defecits where the patient
lacks recognition of familiar object as perceived
by the senses. This could involve all the senses and
manifests with problems in body scheme, such as
somatognosia and anosognosia.

Question 3

What is somatognosia?

Answer 3

Lack of awareness of one’s body parts.

Question 4

What is anosognosia?

Answer 4

Transient, severe form of neglect.Patient does not recognize the presence or severity of his paralysis

Question 5

What is prosopagnosia?

objects, or between objects and self.

Answer 5

Face blindness. Inability to identify an individual

by their face.

Question 6

What is visual-spacial agnosia?

Answer 6

Affects perception of spatial relationship between

Question 7

What is auditory agnosia?

Answer 7

Inability to recognize sounds, words and

non-words.

Question 8

What is visual agnosia?

Answer 8

Lack of ability to recognize common objects and

demonstrate their use in an activity.

Question 9

What is apraxia?

Answer 9

Loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned
(familiar) movements, despite having the desire
and the physical ability to perform the movements

Question 10

What is ideomotor apraxia?

Answer 10

Inability to imitate gestures or perform a
purposeful motor task on command, even though
the patient is able to fully understand the idea or
concept of a task. This is often associated with left
hemisphere damage.

Question 11

What is ideational apraxia?

Answer 11

The disability of carrying out complex sequential
motor acts. Caused by a disruption of the
conception, rather than execution. (Loss of tool
function knowledge)

Question 12

What is oral apraxia?

Answer 12

Difficulty in forming and organizing intelligable
words, though the musculature required to do so is
in tact. Differs from disarthria because no muscles
are affected and speech is not slurred.

Question 13

What is a neuroma?

Answer 13

An unorganized mass of nerve fibers
resulting from a laceration (either surgical or
accidental) or amputation in which the nerve
regrows in unorganized bundles.

Question 14

What causes and what is reflex sympathetic dystrophy?

Answer 14

It’s caused by trauma, post-surgical
inflammation, infection, or laceration to an
extremity. Characterized by pain, edema, shiny
skin, blotchy skin, and excessive sweating or
dryness.

Question 15

What is another name for reflex sympathetic

dystrophy?

Answer 15

Complex regional pain syndrome.

Question 16

What sensory region does the radial nerve

innervate on the hand?

Answer 16

Lateral on dorsal side

Question 17

What sensory region does the ulnar nerve

innervate in the hand?

Answer 17

Ventral and dorsal on medial side

Question 18

What sensory region in the hand is innervated by

the median nerve?

Answer 18

Lateral on ventral side

Question 19

What is extrapyramidal syndrome?

Answer 19

Extrapyramidal syndrome is a neurological side
effect of anti-psychotic medication that mimics the
effects of Parkinson’s disease. This can cause
rigidity, bradykinesia, cogwheel and leadpipe
rigidity, loss of postural mechanisms, and a
resting, pill-rolling tremor.

Question 20

What is tardive dyskinesia?

Answer 20

Tardive dyskinesia is a neurological syndrome
caused by the long-term use of neuroleptic drugs.
Tardive dyskinesia is characterized by repetitive,
involuntary, purposeless movements. Features of
the disorder may include grimacing, tongue
protrusion, lip smacking, puckering and pursing,
and rapid eye blinking. Involuntary movements of
the fingers may appear as though the individual is
playing an invisible guitar or piano.