DISORDERS OF HIGHER CEREBRAL FUNCTIONS

Question 1

Language function is involved

Motor or sensory language disturbances

Answer 1

APHASIA

Question 2

Failure to recognize objects visually in the absence of a defect in visual acuity

Answer 2

Visual agnosia

Question 3

Can see object but cannot identify it

Answer 3

Receptive disability

Question 4

Inability to recognize objects by touch when tactile proprioceptive senses are intact

Lesion in supramarginal gyrus

Answer 4

Tactile agnosia

Question 5

Failure to recognize what the patient hears with intact hearing

Lesion in B.A. 22

Answer 5

Auditory agnosia

Question 6

Patient hears but does not understand

Answer 6

Wernicke’s or Sensory aphasia

Question 7

Patient knows what he wants to say but speech is slow, detecting many words

Answer 7

Broca’s or Motor aphasia

Question 8

Inability to carry out learned or purposive movements in response to stimuli that normally elicit them

Answer 8

APHAXIA - “ Motor disability”

Question 9

Failure to recognize stimuli perceived by the senses

Answer 9

AGNOSIA