Neuro Flashcards

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Agnosia

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Unable to recognize familiar objects w one form of sensation like visual agnosia

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Akinesia

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Inability to initiate movement

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Expressive Aphasia

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AKA Brocas
Difficulty with verbal expression
Impairment w object naming and writing
Seen in R hemiplegia

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Global Aphasia

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Most common and severe form
Reduced speech and comprehension
Writing and word recognition impaired

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Receptive Aphasia

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AKA Wernickes
Decreased auditory comprehension
Reading writing and word recognition impaired

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Apraxia

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Inability to perform movements previously learned

Ideational- no longer knows how to do routine tasks
Ideomotor- cannot do task on command but can do spontaneously

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Astereognosis

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Inability to recognize objects by touch alone

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Athetosis

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Slow involuntary worm like twisting motions

Usually seen in CP

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Causalgia

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Painful Burning sensations

Associated with CRPS Type II

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Chorea

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Rapid involuntary jerky movements

Seen in Huntingtons Chorea

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Clonus

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Rhythmic oscillation of a muscle in response to sustained stretch

Seen in pt’s w UMN lesion

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Horner’s Syndrome

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Pots is of eye
Constriction of pupil
Last of sweating on ipsilateral face

Accompany stroke in inferior cerebellum arteries

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Morton’s Neuroma

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Excessive probation in standing compresses the 3rd and 4th metatarsals
Results in a neuromas forming on interdigital nerves leading to metatarsalgia

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Romberg’s sign

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Loss of a balance in standing with eyes closed

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Somatagnosia

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Lack of awareness of the relationship of ones own body parts or body parts of others

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Homonymous Hemianopsia

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Deficit in the R or L halves of the visual field

Caused by damage to control sterol optic tract

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Bitemporal Hemianopsia

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Deficit of temporal or peripheral visual field

AKA Tunnel vision

Cause by damage to optic chiasm

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Monocular blindness

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Blindness in one eye due to damage to optic nerve