Exam 3 Disorders Flashcards
Anterior Apraxia
Lose ability to implement motor memories
Damage to Lateral PFC
novelty functions impaired, problems inhibiting habitual actions, problems with planning and decision making, problems with error correcting and self-monitoring,
akinetic mutism
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.
cerebellar damage
problems with coordination, problems with completing actions.
ADHD (Basal ganglia involvement)
TC
acquired sociopathy
TC
Capgras syndrome
people report their acquaintances, normally those that are closest to them, have been replaced by imposters.
posterior, or ideomotor, apraxia
the inability to produce appropriate gestures, given an object, command, or word
amygdala damage
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome. Emotional blunting, difficulty with recognizing fear.
phobia
TC
VMPFC damage
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.
autism
TC
Broca’s Aphasia
TC
Dysarthria
Difficulty saying words because of muscles with which you use to speak
Conduction Aphasia
TC
Anomia
word finding difficulties
Conduction Aphasia
TC
Pure Alexia / Letter by letter reading
reading time increases proportionately to the length of the word. letter by letter, then sound out.
Surface Dyslexia
patients read regular words and non-words better than irregular words; irregular words pronounced phonetically
Deep Dyslexia
patients are able to read words but not non-words; semantic errors
Developmental Dyslexia
TC
Dysgraphia
difficulties in spelling and writing
Phonological Dyslexia
patients are able to read words better than non-words; absence of semantic errors
Developmental Dyslexia
tc
Associative Agnosia
TC
Semantic Dementia
TC
Frontal Apraxia
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.
