Neuro Flashcards
Loss of voice that accompanies disease affecting the larynx or its nerve supply
Aphonia
Impairment in the volume, quality or pitch of the voice. Example- hoarse or only speak in a whisper. Caused by laryngitis, tumors, unilateral cord paralysis (CN X)
Dysphonia
Defect in the muscular control of the speech apparatus (lips,, tongue, palate, pharynx). Worse may be nasal, slurred, or indistinct but central symbolic aspect of language remains intact. Causes include motor lesions of CNS or PNS, parkinsonism, cerebellar disease.
Dysarthria
Disorder in producing or understanding language. Often caused by lesion in the dominant cerebral hemisphere (left)
Aphasia
In which type of aphasia is speech fluent, rapid, effortless but sentences lack meaning and words are malformed or inverted.
Wernicke’s Aphasia
In which type of aphasia is word comprehension good, and reading comprehension fair to good?
Broca’s aphasia
In which type of aphasia are word and reading comprehension, repetition, naming, and writing all impaired?
Wernicke’s aphasia
IN which type of aphasia is speech nonfluent, slow and laborious. Words are meaningful with nouns and transitive verbs with important adverbs.
Broca’s aphasia
What type aphasia is there a lesion in the posterior superior temporal lobe?
Wernicke’s
In which type aphasia is there a lesion in the posterior inferior frontal lobe?
Broca’s
This type of disorder is characterized by distrust and suspiciousness.
Paranoid
Characterized by Detachment from social relations with a restricted emotional range
Schizoid
Eccentricities in behavior and cognitive distortions; acute discomfort in close relationships
Schizotypal
Disregard for the law and rights of others; a defect in the experience of compunction or remorse for harming others
Antisocial
Instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and affective regulation; impulsivity
Borderline
Emotional overreactivity, theatrical behavior, and seductiveness; attention-seeking behavior
HIstrionic
Persisting grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy for others
Narcissistic
Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
Avoidant
Submissive and clinging behavior; psychological dependence on others
Dependent
Rigid, detail-oriented behavior, often associated w/ compulsions to perform tasks repetitively and unnecessarily and rigid conformity to rules
Obsessive-compulsive
Speech characterized by indirection and delay in reaching the point because of unnecessary detail. Occurs in people with obsessions.
Circumstantiality
Speech in which a person shifts from one subject to others w/o realizing the subjects aren’t meaningfully connects. Seen in schizophrenia, manic episodes,
Derailment (loosening of associations)
An almost continuous flow of accelerated speech in which a person changes abruptly from topic to topic. Changes are usually based on understandable associations and play on words but ideas don’t produce a sensible conversations. Most often seen in manic episodes
Flight of ideas
Invented or distorted words, or words w/ new and highly idiosyncratic meanings. Often seen in schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, aphasia
Neologisms
Speech that is largely incomprehensible because of illogic, lack of meaningful connections, abrupt changes in topic, disordered grammar or word use. Seen in severe psychotic disturbances (usually schizophrenia)
Incoherence
Sudden interruption of speech in mid sentence or before completion of an idea. Person attributes this to losing the though. Also occurs in normal people, but may be striking in schizophrenia.
Blocking
Fabrication of facts or events in response to questions to fill in the gaps of invalid memory. Often seen in Korsakoff’s syndrome from alcoholism.
Confabulation
Persistent repetition or words or ideas. Seen in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Preseveration
Repetition of the words and phrases of others. Occurs in manic episodes and schizophrenia
Echolalia
Speech in which a person chooses a word on the basis of sound rather than meaning, as in rhyming and punning speech. Seen in schizophrenia and manic episodes
Clanging
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in order to produce or prevent some future state of affairs, although such expectations are unrealistic.
Compulsions
Recurrent, uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses that a person considers unacceptable and alien. Intrusive thoughts.
Obsessions
Persistent, irrational fears, accompanied by a compelling desire to avoid that stimulus.
Phobias
Apprehensions, fears, tensions or uneasiness that may be focused (phobia) or free-floating ( a general sense of ill-defined dread or impending doom)
Anxieties
A sense that one’s self is different, changed or unreal or has lost identity or become detached from one’s mind or body.
Feelings of Depersonalization
False, fixed personal beliefs that are not shared by other members of the person’s culture.
Delusions
Misinterpretations of a real external stimuli. Seen in greif, PTSD< schizophrenia, delirium
Illusions
Subjective sensory perceptions in the absence of relevant external stimuli.
Hallucinations
3 tests for attention
Digit Span
Serial 7s
Spelling Backwards
Memory about birthdays, anniversaries, social security number, names of schools attended, historical events.
Remote Memory
Events of the day (weather, appointment time, medications)
Recent memory
A delusion where people are getting thoughts from other sources- television, PC, etc.
Delusions of reference
People keep adding on symptoms and have a very elaborate amount of symptoms.
systematized delusions
What are the 3 “d’s” to screen for?
Delirium
Depression
Dementia
Cranial Never for lateral deviation of the eye.
CN VI Abducens
CN for downward, internal rotation of the eye.
Trochlear, IV
CN for facial movements and taste on anterior 2/3 of tongue.
Facial VII
CN for temporal, masseter, lateral pterygoids movements and sensory from face.
Trigeminal, V
CN for hearing and balance
VIII, Acoustic (vestibulocochlear)
CN for motor of parynx, sensory from posterior parts of earn and ear drum, pharynx, posterior taste of tongue
IX, Glossopharyngeal
CN for motor of the palate, pharynx, larynx. Sensory from pharynx and larynx
X, Vagus
CN for movement of SCM, upper part of trapezius
XI, Spinal accessory
CN for movement of the tongue
XII, Hypoglossal
CN for vision, ocular fundi
II, Optic
CN for pupillary constriction, opening of the eye, EOM
III, Oculomotor
CN for sense of smell
I, Olfactory
What cranial nerves are involved in pupillary reactions?
II, III (optic, oculomotor)
WHat CN are involved in EOMs?
III, IV, VI (Oculomotor, trochlear, abducens)
What CN are involved in voice and speech?
V, VII, X, XII (Trigeminal, Facial, Vagus, Hypoglossal)
What CN are involved in swallowing and risk of the palate, gag reflex
CN IX, X (glossopharyngeal, Vagus)
In what condition will the eyes not close and forehead not wrinkle on the affected side.
Peripheral lesion of facial nerve i.e. Bell’s Palsy
In what condition will the forehead wrinkle but there is paralysis of the lower face?
Central lesion involving UPN between cortex and pons
What is the rhythmic oscillation of the eyes, analogous to a tremor ins other parts of the body?
Nystagmus
What are some causes of nystagmus?
Impairment of vision early in life
Disorders of the labyrinth and cerebellar system
Drug toxicity
When does nystagmus occur normally?
When a person watching a rapidly moving object (ex- passing train)
What tract mediates voluntary movement, and integrates skilled, complicated or delicate movements. Also carry impulses that inhibit muscle tone.
Corticospinal (pyramidal) tract