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Terminology Flashcards

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Agnosia

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Cant interpret info

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Agraphesthesia

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Inability to recognize symbols, letters, drawn on skin

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Agraphia

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Cant write

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Alexia

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inability to read or comprehend written language

Lesion in dominant hemisphere

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Anosognosia

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Denial of ones illness

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Aphasia

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inability to communicate or comprehend

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Apraxia

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inability to perform purposeful learned movements even though there is no impairment that would cause you to not be able to do task

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Astereognosis

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Inability to recognize an object by touch

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Constructional apraxia

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inability to reproduce geometric figures and designs

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Deceberate rigidity

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Corticospinal lesion at level of brainstem

entension of trunk and all extremities

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Decorticate

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Corticospinal lesion at the level of the diencephalon
UE flexed
LE and trunk extended

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Dysarthria

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Slurred speech bc of motor deficit of tongue or other muscles

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Dysphagia

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inability to properly swallow

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Dysprosody

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Rhythm and inflection of speech impaired

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Emotional lability

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characteristic of right hemisphere infarct

Inability to control emotions and outbursts of laughing and crying

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Hemiparesis

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Weakness on one side of body

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Hemiplegia

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paralysis on one side of the body

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Homonymous hemianopsia

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loss of the right or left half of field of vision in both eyes

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Ideational apraxia

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inability to formulate an initial motor plan and sequence tasks where the proprioceptive input necessary for movement is impaired

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Ideomotor apraxia

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Person plans a movement but cant perform it. Person cant perform it on command

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Neologism

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Substitution within a word that is so severe the word cant be recognized

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Perservation

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repeatedly performing the segment of a task or saying the same word over and over without purpose

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Non fluent aphasia

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speech is non functional

Writing also impaired

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