Exam 3 Disorders

Question 1

Anterior Apraxia

Answer 1

Lose ability to implement motor memories

Question 2

Damage to Lateral PFC

Answer 2

novelty functions impaired, problems inhibiting habitual actions, problems with planning and decision making, problems with error correcting and self-monitoring,

Question 3

akinetic mutism

Answer 3

The result of severe frontal lobe injury (Anterior Cingulate Lesions) in which the pattern of inhibitory control is one of increasing passivity and gradually decreasing speech and motion.
Symptoms resolve quickly, many patients with cingulotomies do not have permanent problems.

Question 4

cerebellar damage

Answer 4

problems with coordination, problems with completing actions.

Question 5

ADHD (Basal ganglia involvement)

Answer 5

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Question 6

acquired sociopathy

Answer 6

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Question 7

Capgras syndrome

Answer 7

people report their acquaintances, normally those that are closest to them, have been replaced by imposters.

Question 8

posterior, or ideomotor, apraxia

Answer 8

the inability to produce appropriate gestures, given an object, command, or word

Question 9

amygdala damage

Answer 9

Kluver-Bucy Syndrome. Emotional blunting, difficulty with recognizing fear.

Question 10

phobia

Answer 10

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Question 11

VMPFC damage

Answer 11

Includes orbitofrontal regions.
Phineas Gage.
Impaired processing of reward and emotions, personality alterations, pseudo-depression, pseudo-psychopathy, impairment in personally relevant reasoning, real life decision making.

Question 12

autism

Answer 12

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Question 13

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 13

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Question 14

Dysarthria

Answer 14

Difficulty saying words because of muscles with which you use to speak

Question 15

Conduction Aphasia

Answer 15

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Question 16

Anomia

Answer 16

word finding difficulties

Question 17

Conduction Aphasia

Answer 17

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Question 18

Pure Alexia / Letter by letter reading

Answer 18

reading time increases proportionately to the length of the word. letter by letter, then sound out.

Question 19

Surface Dyslexia

Answer 19

patients read regular words and non-words better than irregular words; irregular words pronounced phonetically

Question 20

Deep Dyslexia

Answer 20

patients are able to read words but not non-words; semantic errors

Question 21

Developmental Dyslexia

Answer 21

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Question 22

Dysgraphia

Answer 22

difficulties in spelling and writing

Question 23

Phonological Dyslexia

Answer 23

patients are able to read words better than non-words; absence of semantic errors

Question 24

Developmental Dyslexia

Answer 24

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Question 25

Associative Agnosia

Answer 25

TC

Question 26

Semantic Dementia

Answer 26

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Question 27

Frontal Apraxia

Answer 27

Action disorganization syndrome.
failure in tasks of routine activity that involve setting up and maintaining different subgoals. but with no basic deficits in object recognition or gesturing the use of isolated objects.