Neuro

Question 1

Agonosia

Answer 1

inability to recognize familiar objects with one for of sensation

Question 2

Akinesia

Answer 2

inability to initiate movement; one of the major impairments of Parkinson disease

Question 3

Aphasia

Answer 3

disturbance to language that results in errors in word choice, comprehension, or syntax

Question 4

Expressive/Brocas

Answer 4

difficulty with verbal expression with impairment in object naming and writing abilities

Question 5

Receptive/Wernicke’s

Answer 5

severe disturbances in in auditory comprehension

Question 6

Global

Answer 6

most severe of aphasia; reduced speech and comprehension

Question 7

conduction or associative aphasia

Answer 7

Repeating phrases and word finding issues; The result of damage to the acute fascicles that connects wernickes and brocas area

Question 8

Apraxia

Answer 8

inability to perform movements previously learned even though there is no loss of strength

Question 9

Astereognosis

Answer 9

inability to recognize objects by touch alone

Question 10

asynergia

Answer 10

inability to move muscles together in a coordinated manner

Question 11

ataxia

Answer 11

uncoordinated movement, especially gait

Question 12

Athetosis

Answer 12

slow, involuntary, worm like, twisting motions

Question 13

causalgia

Answer 13

burning sensations, which are painful; often with CRPS

Question 14

Chorea

Answer 14

rapid, involuntary, jerky movements; seen in Huntingtons chorea

Question 15

clonus

Question 16

decerebrate rigidity

Answer 16

involuntary contraction of the extensor muscle of the upper and lower extremities d/t injury in the brainstem above the vestibular nucleus and below the red nucleus

Question 17

decorticate rigidity

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contraction of the flexor muscles of the upper extremities with contraction of the extensor muscles of the lower extremities d/t damage to the motor tracts above the red nucleus midbrain

Question 18

Delirium

Answer 18

temporary confusion and loss of mental function

Question 19

Dementia

Question 20

Dysdiadochokinesia

Answer 20

impaired ability to perform rapid alternating movement; associated with cerebellar disorders

Question 21

Dysmetria

Answer 21

inability to judge distances

Question 22

EMG

Answer 22

muscle testing

Question 23

Shingles Herpes zoster

Question 24

Horner’s syndrome

Answer 24

dropping of the eyelid Ptosis, constriction of the pupil Miosis, and lack of sweating of the ipsilateral face anhidrosis d/t damage to the sympathetic tract

Question 25

hyoermetria

Answer 25

seen with cerebellar dysfunction in which individuals past point or move beyond a specific target

Question 26

Nystagmus

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involuntary eye movement in a horizontal, vertical or rotational direction; associated with vestibular, visual, and cerebellar disorders

Question 27

somatagnosia

Answer 27

a lack of awareness of the relationship of one’s own body parts or the body parts of others

Question 28

Visual field deficits

Question 29

flexion synergy

Answer 29

upper extremity-
scapular elevation and retraction
shoulder abduction and external rotation
elbow flexion
forearm supination and wrist/finger flexion

Question 30

flexion synergy

Answer 30

lower extremity-
hip flexion abduction, external rotation
knee flexion
ankle dorsiflexion and inversion
toe dorsiflexion

Question 31

extensor synergy

Answer 31

opposite of flexion synergy