Symptoms of stroke

Question 1

A______: The loss of ability to execute skilled movement, which cannot be accounted for by ‘weakness’, incoordination, sensory loss, poor comprehension, or inattention.

Answer 1

Apraixa

Question 2

A_______ are cognitive impairments that affect limb movement and speech.

Answer 2

Apraxias

Question 3

Apraxia and d_______ are used interchangeably

Answer 3

dyspraxia

Question 4

Patients do not usually complain of _______, but they present in clinical practice as clumsy and lacking dexterity in their unaffected hand

Answer 4

apraxia

Question 5

Ideo______ apraxia is defined as the inability to pantomime object use or to imitate gesture

Answer 5

ideomotor

Question 6

Apraxia is a common problem that is most often associated with ____ hemisphere stroke.

Answer 6

Left

Question 7

The most frequently encountered visual problem after stroke is homo_____ hemianopia, defined as impaired visual perception or blindness for one half of the visual field

Answer 7

homonymous

Question 8

C________ B_________: patients are unaware of seeing but yet are able to respond to some visual stimuli

Answer 8

Cortical blindness

Question 9

Vi_____ A_________ is the failure to recognize objects through vision, though patients may be able to describe some features of objects they cannot recognize.

Answer 9

Visual agnosia

Question 10

App_______ agnosia: Patients are unable to assemble perceptual information

Answer 10

Apperceptive Agnosia

Question 11

Ass________ agnosia: Patients fail to retrieve stored knowledge about an object despite intact perception.

Answer 11

Associative agnosia

Question 12

Patients with app__________ agnosia are unable to recognise objects presented visually

Answer 12

Apperceptive Agnosia

Question 13

Patients with ass_________ agnosia can recognise the key features of a visual stimulus, but cannot access the names

Answer 13

associative agnosia

Question 14

Proso_______ is a selective inability to visually recognise faces.

Answer 14

Prosopagnosia

Question 15

If a patient cannot recognise their own face or their spouses in the mirror, they may be suffering from ______________

Answer 15

prosopagnosia

Question 16

App__________ prosopagnoia : A visual processing deficit, patients are unable to match two views of the same face as being the same person

Answer 16

Apperceptive prosopagnosia

Question 17

Ass__________ prosopagnosia: patients are unable to recognise familiar faces, even though they retain certain knowledge about the people

Answer 17

associative prosopagnosia

Question 18

___________ disorders include problems with route finding, visual localisation, visiospatial imagery and visuoconstructional tasks

Answer 18

Visiospatial disorders

Question 19

Anosa________ is the unawareness or denial of a disorder.

Answer 19

Anosaagnosia

Question 20

A disruption of the blood supply to the brain is known as a _________ __________

Answer 20

ischaemic infarction

Question 21

Bleeding within the brain is known as a intracerebral __________

Answer 21

haemorrhage`

Question 22

Visual neglect, also knwon as visual inattention, is a syndrome in which patients do not attend to a proportion of the contra_______ visual field

Answer 22

contralesional

Question 23

Visual neglect can occur following stroke that is more common and usually more severe following _____ hemisphere stroke, affecting the _____ visual hemisphere

Answer 23

Right; Left

Question 24

E_________ memory refers to the ability to remember personal events and the temporal-spatial relations among these events

Answer 24

Episodic Memory

Question 25

Reterograde memory is (before/after) a stroke event, anterograde memory is (before/after) a stroke event

Answer 25

before ; after

Question 26

E_________ F__________ describes a constellation of cognitive domains, such as conceptual reasoning, cognitive flexibility, planning and problem solving.

Answer 26

Executive Functioning