Disorders and syndromes

Question 1

Homonymous Hemianopia

Answer 1

visual field defect involving either the two right or the two left halves of the visual fields of both eyes

Question 2

Anosognosia

Answer 2

denial of illness

Question 3

asomatognosia

Answer 3

denial of body part

Question 4

akinesia

Answer 4

failure to initiate movement

Question 5

agrammatism

Answer 5

telegraphic speech

a form of speech production, associated with Broca’s aphasia, in which grammar appears relatively inaccessible

Question 6

agraphia

Answer 6

loss of ability to write

Question 7

alexia

Answer 7

acquired impairment in reading

Question 8

Prosopagnosia

Answer 8

inability to recognize, identify, or revisualize holistic face representations of familiar or unfamiliar people

Question 9

Achromatopsia

Answer 9

impairment in color perception ( see only black and white)

Question 10

Spatial Acalculia

Answer 10

acquired deficit in calculation ability resulting from spatial confusion

Question 11

alexia

Answer 11

left visual cortex

Question 12

agraphia

Answer 12

left parietal

Question 13

alexia without agraphia

Answer 13

left visual cortex

splenium of corpus callosum