Terms Flashcards
What is unaware or denial of illness
Lack of insight
anosognosia
What is “Pusher Syndrome”
- Altered perception of body orientation leads to pushing the body to the contralateral side
- May also be seen with injury to the thalamus
- More common with right hemisphere injuries
Lateropulsion
What is the task of names of colors printed using ink of a different color than the name? Name the color of the ink and not the words as fast as you can with fewest erros?
Stroop task
-Cingulate gyrus
What is showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
Ampathetic
What is is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact.
Anterograde amnesia
What is named in 1861 as the center of speech articulation. It is considered to be responsible for controlling the movement of the muscles of the speaking apparatus and related movements of lips, tongue, larynx, and pharynx
Broca’s Motor/Expressive Speech/Language
What is is also called upper motor neuron dysarthria. It is a motor speech problem characterized by a harsh, low‐pitched, slow, monotonous verbal output that sounds strained or strangled?
Spastic dysarthria
What is inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage?
Apraxia
Is a form of agnosia that manifests itself primarily in the inability to recognize or differentiate between sounds. It is not a defect of the ear or “hearing”, but rather a neurological inability of the brain to process sound meaning.
Auditory agnosia
a form of aphasia in which the patient is unable to recall the names of everyday objects.
anomia
Unintended words or phrases
pharaphasia
May make up names for objeccts
Neologism
Inability to read
Alexia
Inability to write
Agraphia
