Terminology Flashcards
Agnosia
Cant interpret info
Agraphesthesia
Inability to recognize symbols, letters, drawn on skin
Agraphia
Cant write
Alexia
inability to read or comprehend written language
Lesion in dominant hemisphere
Anosognosia
Denial of ones illness
Aphasia
inability to communicate or comprehend
Apraxia
inability to perform purposeful learned movements even though there is no impairment that would cause you to not be able to do task
Astereognosis
Inability to recognize an object by touch
Constructional apraxia
inability to reproduce geometric figures and designs
Deceberate rigidity
Corticospinal lesion at level of brainstem
entension of trunk and all extremities
Decorticate
Corticospinal lesion at the level of the diencephalon
UE flexed
LE and trunk extended
Dysarthria
Slurred speech bc of motor deficit of tongue or other muscles
Dysphagia
inability to properly swallow
Dysprosody
Rhythm and inflection of speech impaired
Emotional lability
characteristic of right hemisphere infarct
Inability to control emotions and outbursts of laughing and crying
Hemiparesis
Weakness on one side of body
Hemiplegia
paralysis on one side of the body
Homonymous hemianopsia
loss of the right or left half of field of vision in both eyes
Ideational apraxia
inability to formulate an initial motor plan and sequence tasks where the proprioceptive input necessary for movement is impaired
Ideomotor apraxia
Person plans a movement but cant perform it. Person cant perform it on command
Neologism
Substitution within a word that is so severe the word cant be recognized
Perservation
repeatedly performing the segment of a task or saying the same word over and over without purpose
Non fluent aphasia
speech is non functional
Writing also impaired
