PERCEPTUAL FUNCTIONS AND DYSFUNCTIONS OF CNS TEST#4

Question 1

Where does all sensory information is being sent?

Answer 1

To Multimodal area

Question 2

There are three Multimodal association areas in the brain, What are they?

Answer 2

Posterior, anterior and limbic

Question 3

The posterior multimodal area integrates what sensory?

Answer 3

Somatosensory, visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory cortices.

Question 4

The anterior multimodal area integrates what?

Answer 4

Which motor plan to implement

Question 5

The limbic does what?

Answer 5

Takes the sensory data from posterior and anterior multimodal areas and connect them together to form emotions and motivations through memory.

Question 6

The right hemisphere is responsible for?

Answer 6

perception (how one perceives the environment and one’s relationship to the environment).

Question 7

Visual agnosia ?

Answer 7

inability to identify and recognize familiar objects and people.
Lesion in the R hemisphere in the posterior multimodal area

Question 8

Prosopagnosia?

Answer 8

inability to indentyf familiar faces. Due to lack of perceive of bone structure and facial muscle position that is unique to each of us. 
L hemisphere (can recognize the face by scare or mole).

Question 9

What is Simultanagnosia ?

Answer 9

difficulty interpreting a visual stimulus as a whole

Question 10

Metamorphopsia?

Answer 10

Visual distortion of the physical properties of objects so the objects appear bigger, smaller, or heavier than they really are

Question 11

Color agnosia ?

Answer 11

Inability to attach appropriate colors to specific objects

Question 12

Color anomia?

Answer 12

lost the names for colors

Question 13

Cerebral achromatopsia?

Answer 13

The memory of color is erased. World appears in shades of gray.

Question 14

Right-Left Discrimiation Dysfunction/Screen

Answer 14

Difficulty understanding and using the concepts of R and

Screen ; point to left and right body parts.

Question 15

Figure-Ground Discrimination Dysfunction/screen

Answer 15

difficulty distinguishing the foreground from the background.
Screen: Ask the patient to pick out forks from drawer of disorganized utensils

Question 16

From-Constancy Dysfunction/Screen

Answer 16

Difficulty seeing objects when they form changes.

Screen: ask the patient to identify an object when it is turned on its side or placed upside down

Question 17

Position In Space Dysfunction/Screen

Answer 17

Difficulties with concept relating to position such as up/down, in/out/ behing/infron of, or before/after
Screen: Give a patient directions with terms described above.

Question 18

Topographical Disorientation/Screen

Answer 18

Difficulty comprehending the realtionship of one location to another.
Screen: Can the patient find his or her way around the hospital using written directions or pictorial map

Question 19

Depth Perception Dysfunction (steropsis)/ Screen

Answer 19

Difficulty determining wherther one object is closer to the patient than another object
Screen:Determing objects if they are ner of far in relation to eachother.

Question 20

Finger Agnosia/Screen

Answer 20

Impaired perception concerning the realtionship of the fingers to each other
Screen’ Ask the pt to tap on IF

Question 21

Unilateral Neglact

Answer 21

Right Resolves quickly than L one

Question 22

Anosognosia

Answer 22

Worst then unilateral neglact.

R side is worst then L side.

Question 23

Aphasia

Answer 23

impairment in the expression and/pr comprehansion of language

Question 24

Receptive aphasia

Answer 24

impairment in comprehension of language

Question 25

Wernicke aphasis ?

Answer 25

involvs difficult comprehending the literal interpretation of language

Question 26

Alexia

Answer 26

inability to comprehend the written word (read)

Question 27

Dyslexia

Answer 27

impaired ability to read

Question 28

Asymbolia

Answer 28

Difficulty comprehending gestures and symbols

Question 29

Aprosodia

Answer 29

impaired comprehension of tonal inflections used in conversations

Question 30

Expressive Aphasis

Answer 30

Difficulty expressing clean, meaningful language.

Question 31

Brocas Aphasis

Answer 31

expressive language disorder. Patient understand what is spoken to them but they cannon express ideas.

Question 32

Anomia

Answer 32

Inability to remember and epxress the names of people or objects

Question 33

Agrammation

Answer 33

Inability to arrange words sequentially so that they form intelligible sentence.

Question 34

Agraphia ?

Answer 34

Inability to write intelligible words and sentences

Question 35

Acalculia

Answer 35

Inability to calcuate mathematical problems

Question 36

Alexithymia

Answer 36

inability to express one’s emotions through words.

Question 37

Ideational Apraxia?

Answer 37

inability to cognitively understand the motor demands of the task

Question 38

Apraxia is?

Answer 38

Motor planning impariement

Question 39

Ideomotor apraxia I

Answer 39

loss of kinesthetic memory of motor pattern. Motor plan for specific task is lost.

Question 40

Ideomotor Apraxia II

Answer 40

Cannot implement the appropriate motor plan. Understand the motor demands fo the task.

Question 41

Dressing Apraxia

Answer 41

Inability to dress oneself due to impairment in either body shema perception or perceptual motor function

Question 42

Body Shema is?

Answer 42

awareness of spatial characteristics of one’s own body.

Question 43

Tactile Agnosia?

Answer 43

inability to attach meaning to somatosensory data

Question 44

Astereognosis?

Answer 44

Inability to identyfy objects by touch alone

Question 45

Agraphesthesia?

Answer 45

Is the loss of the ability to interpret letters written on the contralateral hand

Question 46

Abarognosis?

Answer 46

Inability to accurately estimare the weight of objects particularly in comparison to each other

Question 47

Atopognosia?

Answer 47

Is the inability to accuretly perceive the exact location of a sensation.

Question 48

Auditory Agnosia?

Answer 48

Inability to attach meaning to sound.