Neuropsych Terms

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Anosmia

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Impaired sense of smell

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Proprioception

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The unconscious awareness of sensations coming from one’s muscles and joints that helps regulate our position in three dimensional space 

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Visual agnosia

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Inability to recognize visual stimuli

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Auditory agnosia

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Inability to recognize auditory stimuli

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Apraxia

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Inability to plan and execute a learned, voluntary movement smoothly, not due to muscle weakness, or failure to understand directions

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Ataxia

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Incoordination of movement, usually due to disease of sensory or cerebellar pathways

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Graphomotor apraxia

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Inability to draw and write despite normal capacity to hold a writing instrument

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Prosopagnosia

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Impaired face recognition

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Simultanagnosia

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Impaired recognition of the meaning of whole pictures or objects, but intact ability to describe the parts of the pictures/objects

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Anterograde amnesia

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The inability to learn and recall new information

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Retrograde amnesia

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The inability to recall information that was previously learned or stored.

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Broca’s aphasia

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An expressive disorder with slow, laborious, and nonfluent speech. Comprehends speech much better than producing it.

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Apraxia of speech

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Impairment in the ability to program movements of the lips, tongue, and throat for the production of speech.

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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Receptive disorder, with poor speech comprehension and fluent but meaningless speech.

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Anomia

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Inability to find the correct word or name objects

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Aphasia

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Impairment of some aspect of language, not due to deficits in speech or hearing organs, but due to brain impairment.

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Circumlocution

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Discourse that begins with a specific subject, wanders to various other subjects, and then returns to the original topic.

Using more words than necessary to express an idea.

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Dysarthria

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Difficulty with pronunciation due to weakness or poor coordination of the muscles of lips, tongue, jaw, etc.

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Dysnomia

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Difficulty finding the correct word 

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Dysphonetic dyslexia

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Difficulty with reading because of poor phonological skills. Having an over reliance on visual cues.

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Surface dyslexia

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Poor reading because of difficulty, recognizing symbols of language. Having an overreliance on auditory cues. 

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Mixed dyslexia

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Poor reading because of an overreliance on semantic cues. Auditory and visual processing of reading is impaired.

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Deep dyslexia (aka Semantic dyslexia)

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Reliance on visual and semantic cues. Reading abstract words is difficult because of impaired phonological processing. Semantic errors are the hallmark of this disorder. 

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Dysphonetic dysgraphia

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Writing disorder in which the person cannot sound out words and write them phonetically. 

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Surface dysgraphia

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A writing disorder in which the person can spell regularly spelled words, but not irregularly spelled ones.

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Mixed dysgraphia

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A writing disorder, characterized by the inability to sequence letters, accurately in words, the inability to recall letter formations properly, and inconsistent spelling skills. 

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Executive dysgraphia

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Characterized by poor organization and planning skills, lack of attention to proper grammar and syntax, poor elaboration of details in writing, etc.

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Graphomotor dysgraphia

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A wide variety of motor skills deficit involved in planning, organization, guidance, and automaticity of motor movements that physically transcribe thoughts and ideas onto paper.

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Procedural dyscalculia

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Involves poor strategy or algorithm use, slow computational speed, frequent calculation errors

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Verbal dyscalculia

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Disorder of the verbal representation of numbers and the inability to use language-based procedures to assist in math fact retrieval skills 

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Semantic dyscalculia

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Poor number-symbol association, and math fact automaticity. Poor quantitative reasoning, difficult difficulties with symbolic, and non-symbolic representation of numbers, poor, visual, spatial skills, and executive dysfunctions.