Neuro Flashcards
Agnosia
Unable to recognize familiar objects w one form of sensation like visual agnosia
Akinesia
Inability to initiate movement
Expressive Aphasia
AKA Brocas
Difficulty with verbal expression
Impairment w object naming and writing
Seen in R hemiplegia
Global Aphasia
Most common and severe form
Reduced speech and comprehension
Writing and word recognition impaired
Receptive Aphasia
AKA Wernickes
Decreased auditory comprehension
Reading writing and word recognition impaired
Apraxia
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
Astereognosis
Inability to recognize objects by touch alone
Athetosis
Slow involuntary worm like twisting motions
Usually seen in CP
Causalgia
Painful Burning sensations
Associated with CRPS Type II
Chorea
Rapid involuntary jerky movements
Seen in Huntingtons Chorea
Clonus
Rhythmic oscillation of a muscle in response to sustained stretch
Seen in pt’s w UMN lesion
Horner’s Syndrome
Pots is of eye
Constriction of pupil
Last of sweating on ipsilateral face
Accompany stroke in inferior cerebellum arteries
Morton’s Neuroma
Excessive probation in standing compresses the 3rd and 4th metatarsals
Results in a neuromas forming on interdigital nerves leading to metatarsalgia
Romberg’s sign
Loss of a balance in standing with eyes closed
Somatagnosia
Lack of awareness of the relationship of ones own body parts or body parts of others
