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Stroke Syndromes Flashcards

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A focal neurologic deficit of vascular origin. Caused by an abrupt incidence of vascular insufficiency or bleeding into, or immediately adjacent to the brain

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Stroke (Also called a cerebrovascular accident)

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There is higher incidence and prevalence of stroke in the

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Southeastern US

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Is heteromodal (combined inputs from many modalities) and makes up the majority of the human cortex

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Association cortex

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Is the frontal cortex anterior to the motor, premotor, and limbic areas

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Prefrontal cortex

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What are the three main functions of the frontal association cortex?

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Restraint, Initiative, and Order

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The ability to inhibit inappropriate behaviors

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Restraint

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The motivation to pursue positive/productive activities

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Initiative

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The capacity to correctly perform sequencing tasks and cognitive operations

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Order

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Cause large changes in affect, mood, and personality

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Frontal Lobe Lesions

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Characterized by loss of restraint, inappropriate social behavior, loss of ambition and judgement and inability to plan for the future

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Frontal Lobe Lesions

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Functions in the coordination of complex aspects of human cognition and behavior. These require the integration of thought with emotion

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Prefrontal cortex

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Characterized by abulia, laughing at serious matters, and limited insight

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Prefrontal cortex lesions

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Responsible for making decisions about the future, planning, and maintaining focus

-Responsible for working memory

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Dorsolateral Prefrontal cortex

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Failure on Delayed Response Task This requires working memory and planning to retrieve the food after a period of time

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Dorsolateral prefrontal lesions causing working memory deficits

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Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex is important for planning a

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Goal directed movement

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Responsible for behavioral inhibition and empathy

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Ventromedial/Orbitofrontal Prefrontal Cortex

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Lesions cause inappropriate behaviors and patients do not respond to images of sad, happy, or angry faces

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Lesions to Ventromedial/Orbitofrontal Prefrontal Cortex

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18
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An Example of an Orbitofrontal/Ventromedial Lesion is

-Most common type

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Frontotemporal lobe dementia

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Damage to the right parietal association cortex causes

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Contralateral hemineglect syndrome

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Ignorance of visual, somatosensory, or auditory stimuli, despite intact primary sensation.

-Drawing, reading and writing can reveal

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Sensory neglect

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Motor inattention to one side of the body, despite normal reflexes and strength: eyes deviated to side of lesion

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Motor Neglect

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Patients perceive their body as upright even when it is tilted to the side. Patients will also tend to gaze towards the lesion (away from the neglected side)

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Motor Neglect

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Lack of awareness of neglect. Lack of personal hygiene and grooming. Disownershipof affected part

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Anosognosia

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The process of selectively focusing on one aspect of the environment

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Attention

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The right parietal association cortex functions in

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Attention

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26
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A right hemisphere lesion causes severe

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Left neglect

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A left hemisphere lesion causes minimal

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Right neglect

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Attentional processes are largely in the

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Right Hemisphere

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29
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We have better attention mechanisms to the

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Left

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30
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Extinction tests can uncover

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Neglect

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Patients with neglect will have normal responses to individual stimuli/commands, but demonstrate “extinction” on the

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Neglected side

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Each side tested alone patient will see/feel

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Sensory extinction

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33
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Move each arm separately, and then both together to look for neglected arm or Allokinesia

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Motor extinction

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Moving the wrong arm to the command

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Motor extinction

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35
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Stroke deficits arise from the

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Subcortical structures and pathways

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36
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Medial portions of the frontal lobe and anterior parietal lobe are supplied by the

37
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The regions supplied by the ACA have representations in

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Lower limb motor and sensory function

38
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Contralateral hemiparesis and sensory deficits are greater in the leg than the arm with

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ACA stroke

39
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What kind of aphasia do left sided ACA strokes cause?

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Transcortical Motor Aphasia

40
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The ACA deep branches are called the

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Recurrent Arteries of Heubner

41
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Supplies the anterior limb of the internal capsule and the caudate-putamen

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Recurrent Arteries of Heubner (aka medial striate artery)

42
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Characterized by contralateral hemichorea and contralateral weakness in the face and arm

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Recurrent Arteries of Heubner strokes

43
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Travels to the lateral cortex with several branches supplying subcortical regions

-Largest cerebral artery

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Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA)

44
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Deep penetrating “lenticulostriate” vessels supply the

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Internal Capsule and Basal Ganglia

45
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Prone to narrowing, particularly in patients with longstanding hypertension

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Lenticulostriate arteries

46
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Lenticulostriate arteries are common sites of lacunar infarct. This causes

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Contralateral hemiplegia (pure motor hemiparesis) and possibly basal ganglia signs

47
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Small lenticulostriateinfarcts may only affect

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Ascending or descending pathways

48
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In the posterior limb of the internal capsule, motor pathways (FAL) are anatomically separate from somatosensory pathways (fal) with motor pathways being

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Anterior to Somatosensory

49
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Lesions of the posterior limb of the internal capsule causes

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Pure motor hemiparesis

50
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These lesions to the posterior limb of the internal capsule are from one of three arteries. What are they?

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  1. ) Anterior choroidal artery
  2. ) Lenticulostriate artery
  3. ) Branch of PCA
51
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Usually supplies the region anterior to the central sulcus

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Superior division of MCA

52
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Supplies the region posterior to central sulcus together wit temporal regions

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Inferior divisions of MCA

53
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Causes contralateral UMN paralysis with upper limb deficits being greater than lower limb and the face

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Superior divisions of MCA

54
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Strokes in the superior divisions of MCA affect the

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Motor Cortex

55
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What do we see in the gaze of a patient with infarct in superior divisions of MCA?

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Horizontal gaze to opposite side

56
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What other deficits do we see in a superior division MCA infarct if it is on the

  1. ) Left
  2. ) Right
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  1. ) Speech motor

2. ) Attention

57
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An infarct to the inferior divisions of the MCA affects the

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Sensory cortex (sensory loss is greater to upper limbs than lower and face)

58
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What other deficits do we see in a inferior division MCA infarct if it is on the

  1. ) Left
  2. ) Right
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  1. ) Speech sensory

2. ) Attention

59
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With an inferior division of MCA infarct, we also see losses in

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Visual field

60
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Supplies visual radiations

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Inferior divisions of MCA

61
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Causes severe sensorimotor deficit in the contralateral body. (pre-and post-central gyri and internal capsule)

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MCA stem stroke

62
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Transient paralysis of horizontal gaze to the opposite side, with gaze preference towards the side of the lesion. (frontal eye field)

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MCA stem stroke

63
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If the MCA stem stroke is on the left side, we see

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Global aphasia

64
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If the MCA stem stroke is on the right side, we see

65
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Confusion-agitation from temporal lobe damage can occur with

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MCA stem stoke

66
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Pure motor hemiparesis from a lesion in the internal capsule, ventral pons, or cerebral crus is an example of

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Subcortical lesion

67
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Motor paresis and associated cortical signs from a lesion in the cortex is an axample of a

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Cortical lesion

68
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A deep branch from the internal carotid artery

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Anterior Choroidal Artery

69
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The anterior choroidal artery supplies the

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Optic Tract and Internal Capsule

70
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Characterized by contralateral homonymous hemianopsia and contralateral hemiplegia

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Anterior choroidal artery syndrome

71
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Symptom of anterior choroidal artery syndrome due to lesion to the optic tract

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Contralateral homonymous hemianopsia

72
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Supplies midbrain, thalamus, medial temporal and occipital lobe

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Posterior Cerebral Artery

73
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Left-sided PCA strokes cause

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Transcortical sensory aphasia

74
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Inability to read because the information from the left visual field cannot cross into the language areas (for interpretation of written language)

75
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Patients can write, because language and hand movements are intact, but cannot read what they write with

-Caused by PCA infarct

76
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Deep or stem strokes can produce contralateral

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Hemianesthesia

77
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Deep or stem PCA strokes may produce

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Central pain syndrome

78
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5-10% of all strokes are

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Watershed infarcts

79
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Cause “Man in a barrel” syndrome with sensory and motor loss of the proximal upper limbs, but little effect on the legs

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MCA-ACA watershed infarcts

80
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Which type of aphasia are caused by ACA-MCA watershed infarcts?

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Transcortical motor aphasia

81
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Which type of aphasia is caused by MCA-PCA infarcts?

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Transcortical sensory aphasia

82
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Neurons shut down, but may be restored when cerebral blood flow drops below

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20mL/100g/min

83
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Tissue necrosis (infarct) is seen when cerebral blood flow drops below

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10mL/100g/min

84
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Blood clot forms usually at site of atherosclerosic plaque, causing occlusion

-High risk factor in persons with cerebrovascular disease

85
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A piece of material (usually blood) that lodges in a cerebral blood vessel.

-Commonly caused by atrial fibrillation

86
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An angular gyrus lesion causing agraphia and/or alexia with mild aphasia

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Gerstmann syndrome

87
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Causes acalculia and right-left confusion, finger agnosia -“touch your right ear with your left thumb”

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Gerstmann syndrome

88
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Disconnection of right hemisphere vision from left hemisphere language

-Word blindness

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Alexia without Agraphia

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