Nervous System Terminology

Question 1

Agnosia

Answer 1

Inability to interpret information

Question 2

Agraphesthesia

Answer 2

Inability to recognize symbols/letters/numbers traced on the skin

Question 3

Agraphia

Answer 3

Inability to write d/t lesion

Question 4

Alexia

Answer 4

Inability to read d/t lesion

Question 5

Anosognosia

Answer 5

Denial/unawareness of one’s illness (seen with unilateral neglect)

Question 6

Apraxia

Answer 6

Inability to perform purposeful learned movements/activities

Question 7

Constructional Apraxia

Answer 7

Inability to reproduce geometric figures and designs; cannot visually analyze how to perform a task.

Question 8

Decerebrate Rigidity

Answer 8

Extension of the trunk and all extremities d/t corticospinal lesion an the brainstem level

Question 9

Decorticate Rigidity

Answer 9

Trunk and lower extremities are extended and the upper extrmities are flexed d/t corticospinal lesion at level of the diencephalon

Question 10

Dysprosody

Answer 10

Impairment in the rhythm and inflection of speech

Question 11

Hemiparesis

Answer 11

Weakness on one side of the body

Question 12

Hemiplegia

Answer 12

Paralysis on one side of the body

Question 13

Homonymous Hemianopsia

Answer 13

Loss of right or left half of the visual field in both eyes

Question 14

Ideational Apraxia

Answer 14

Inability to formulate a motor plan and initiate tasks where proprioceptive input for movement is impaired

Question 15

Ideomotor Apraxia

Answer 15

Person motor plans a task but can not volitionally perform it.

Question 16

Neologism

Answer 16

Substition within a word that is so severe it makes the word unrecognizable

Question 17

Synergy

Answer 17

Mass movements that are primitive in nature and coupled with spasticity due to brain damage