Exam 1 Flashcards
Difficulty swallowing
Dysphagia
Slurred speech caused by weak muscles for speech
Dysarthria
Broca’s aphasia is known as?
Non-fluent or expressive aphasia
What is broca’s aphasia?
Can understand but CANT speak fluently
Wernicke’s aphasia is known as?
Fluent or receptive aphasia
What is wernickes aphasia?
Can speak fluently but can’t understand
What part of the brain would u find wernickes aphasia?
Left temporal lobe
Dysmetria
Lack of coordination; undershoots or overshoots
How do you test for dysmetria?
Finger to nose coordination test
Anemia
Decreased # of RBCs
Polycythemia
Elevated RBC count due to reduction in plasma volume
Thrombocytopenia
Platelets less than 140,000 –> increased risk for bleeding
Prothrombin time?
Normal?
Time required for clot to form. Normal is 11 - 13.5 seconds.
Partial thromboplastin time and normal is?
Blood separated into plasma and cells; looks at intrinsic cascade and normal is 30-45 secs.
International normalized ratio
Unitless measure used to correct prothrombin time difference; 2-3 is therapeutic
Inability to smell; seen with lesion where?
Anosmia; seen with frontal lobe lesion
Esotropia
Eyes pulled inward
Strabismus
Eyes pulled outward
Rinne test
Vibrating tuning fork on mastoid bone
Weber test
Vibrating tuning fork on head
Hoarseness- vocal cord weak; nasal quality- palatal weak
Dysphonia
Alpha neurons do what and what kind of fibers?
Generate force and extra fiscal
Myopia
Can’t see far
Presbyopia
Can’t see close
Ability to control the COG over the BOS in any environment
Balance
Gamma neurons do what and what kind of fiber?
Stretch; intrafusal fibers (within the muscle)
Paresis
Weakness, cant recruit motor units, results from lesion within descending motor pathways
Plegia?
Can’t move
Akinesia
Loss of power to voluntarily move
Bradykinesia
Slow movement
Ataxia
Impaired balance and coordination; lose control
Dyskinesia
Abnormal voluntary mvmt
Dystonia
Involuntary muscle contractions that cause repetitive/twisting movements
Apraxia
For verbal its like your brain cant put together the muscles for speech but everything is still INTACT like sensation and motor, etc
Somatagnosia
Lack of body scheme
Anosognosia
Denial of how severe the paralysis is (non dominant parietal lobe)
Ideomotor apraxia
Can’t perform movement on command
Ideational apraxia
Can’t move on command or automatically
8 stages of arousal:
Alert, agitated, delirium, dementia, somnolent, obtundant, stupor, coma
5 parts of MMSE
Orientation, registration, attention and calculation, recall, language