Symptoms of stroke Flashcards
A______: The loss of ability to execute skilled movement, which cannot be accounted for by ‘weakness’, incoordination, sensory loss, poor comprehension, or inattention.
Apraixa
A_______ are cognitive impairments that affect limb movement and speech.
Apraxias
Apraxia and d_______ are used interchangeably
dyspraxia
Patients do not usually complain of _______, but they present in clinical practice as clumsy and lacking dexterity in their unaffected hand
apraxia
Ideo______ apraxia is defined as the inability to pantomime object use or to imitate gesture
ideomotor
Apraxia is a common problem that is most often associated with ____ hemisphere stroke.
Left
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
homonymous
C________ B_________: patients are unaware of seeing but yet are able to respond to some visual stimuli
Cortical blindness
Vi_____ A_________ is the failure to recognize objects through vision, though patients may be able to describe some features of objects they cannot recognize.
Visual agnosia
App_______ agnosia: Patients are unable to assemble perceptual information
Apperceptive Agnosia
Ass________ agnosia: Patients fail to retrieve stored knowledge about an object despite intact perception.
Associative agnosia
Patients with app__________ agnosia are unable to recognise objects presented visually
Apperceptive Agnosia
Patients with ass_________ agnosia can recognise the key features of a visual stimulus, but cannot access the names
associative agnosia
Proso_______ is a selective inability to visually recognise faces.
Prosopagnosia
If a patient cannot recognise their own face or their spouses in the mirror, they may be suffering from ______________
prosopagnosia
App__________ prosopagnoia : A visual processing deficit, patients are unable to match two views of the same face as being the same person
Apperceptive prosopagnosia
Ass__________ prosopagnosia: patients are unable to recognise familiar faces, even though they retain certain knowledge about the people
associative prosopagnosia
___________ disorders include problems with route finding, visual localisation, visiospatial imagery and visuoconstructional tasks
Visiospatial disorders
Anosa________ is the unawareness or denial of a disorder.
Anosaagnosia
A disruption of the blood supply to the brain is known as a _________ __________
ischaemic infarction
Bleeding within the brain is known as a intracerebral __________
haemorrhage`
Visual neglect, also knwon as visual inattention, is a syndrome in which patients do not attend to a proportion of the contra_______ visual field
contralesional
Visual neglect can occur following stroke that is more common and usually more severe following _____ hemisphere stroke, affecting the _____ visual hemisphere
Right; Left
E_________ memory refers to the ability to remember personal events and the temporal-spatial relations among these events
Episodic Memory
Reterograde memory is (before/after) a stroke event, anterograde memory is (before/after) a stroke event
before ; after
E_________ F__________ describes a constellation of cognitive domains, such as conceptual reasoning, cognitive flexibility, planning and problem solving.
Executive Functioning
