Right Hemisphere Disorder Terms/ect. Flashcards
RHD 3 Characteristics
- Non-linguistic
- Extra-linguistic
- Linguistic
non-linguistic
neglect
Anosognosia
Attention
Orientation
Visuospatial
Prosopagnosia
Extra-linguistic
Impulsivity
Emotion
Prosody
Inference
Discourse
Figurative Language
Humor
Pragmatics
Linguistic
Auditory Comp
Word Fluency
Writing
Conversational Discourse
Confabulation
Neglect
fails to recognize
one side of the body
the environmental space
Anosognosia
Unable to become aware of deficit
“lack of insight”
Attention
Affects all aspects of communication and functioning
Impacts memory function
Difficulty with sustained attention and selective attention
Orientation
Oriented to person and place usually, but may be disoriented to time (be reasonable in your assessment of day, date, time of day)
Visuospatial
Difficulty processing visual stimuli
Prosopagnosia
inability to recognize familiar faces
Not a deficit due to a vision problem, but a perceptual and integration problem
Can describe the face, but does not recognize it as familiar
Impulsivity
Frontal lobe damage
Executive function
Individuals that have to have a clear clinical space
Dont have papers, pencils, grabbing
Emotion
Difficult time understanding someone else’s emotion
Over demonstration of emotion
Miss pragmatic cues (don’t understand someone is mad)
Prosody
How things are said
Sarcasm
(tone in which you are saying it)
Inference
This is in everything (memes)
Have to understand the context
Inference
This is in everything (memes)
Have to understand the context
Flat affect
Decreased range in use of facial expressions
Decreased variability of inflection, pitch and stress. Robot-like.
Experience emotion, but don’t convey it
Aprosodia
Flat contour or monotone
Failure to identify emotional tone in mundane sentences
Unable to detect happy, sad or angry faces
Literal interpretations
comprehend only the literal meaning of language
often fail to understand many jokes, metaphors, irony, sarcasm, and common sayings that include figurative language
Relevant vs. Irrelevant
Fail to get big picture of story or conversation
Difficulty distinguishing between important and irrelevant information
RHD
difficulty recognizing emotion or humor in pictured scenes; unlike aphasics!
Metaphor Comprehension
“Metaphor is a pragmatic convention used for studying comprehensions of speaker-meaning that differs from literal content” (Marquart, 2000)
Inference is presumed to be a necessity
Interpreting idioms like “bury the hatchet” or “shoot the bull”
Discourse
RHDs recall main ideas better than details and explicit information
Tend to “miss the point”
Common Linguistic Deficits
Body part naming
Auditory comp of complex information
Word fluency (name as many…..as you can)
Writing
Discourse: Conversation
Turn taking, initiation and closure
May dominate conversation due to verbosity
Presupposition errors- fail to estimate shared knowledge and don’t give enough info on the topic
Discourse: Confabulation
Give information that is untrue; his response to his own confusion, not intended to intentionally mislead listener
