Vocab 1

Question 1

What connects structures within the same hemisphere?

Answer 1

Association fibers

Question 2

What connects area of the right hemisphere with that in the left?

Answer 2

Commissural fibers

Question 3

What project from one area of the CNS to a more distant part of the CNS?

Answer 3

Projection fibers

Question 4

What connects the two cerebral hemispheres?

Answer 4

Corpus Callosum

Question 5

What is unaware or denial of illness?

Answer 5

Anosognosia

Question 6

What is “pusher syndrome”

• Altered perception of body orientation leads to pushing the body to the contralateral side
• May be seen with the injury to the thalamus
• More common with right hemi injuries

Answer 6

Lateropulsion

Question 7

What is is a set of structures in the brain that deal with emotions and memory.

Answer 7

Limbic system

Question 8

• What is 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 the fewest errors?

Answer 8

Stroop task

Question 9

What is showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

Answer 9

apathetic

Question 10

What is the loss of the ability to create new memories, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, even though long-term memories from before the event which caused the amnesia to remain intact.

Answer 10

anterograde amnesia

Question 11

What 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

Answer 11

Spastic dysarthria

Question 12

What is motor planning deficit?
-The inability to perform tasks when asked despite intact sensation, muscle function, coordination and understanding of the task.

Answer 12

Apraxia (Motor)

Question 13

What is unable to act out or imitate an action for a learned task.
-Likely still able to perform an action spontaneously.

(Ex: pretending to use a hammer)

Answer 13

Ideomotor Apraxia

Question 14

What is the inability to establish a sequence of motor movements to complete a multistep functional task?

• May complete steps of ta task in the incorrect order.
• May select an incorrect tool for a task.
• May incorrectly use a tool even if the correct tool is selected.

Ex: dressing

Answer 14

Ideational and conceptual apraxia

Question 15

What deals with producing tone, rhythm, gestures during speech (verbal or sign language)

Answer 15

Prosody

Question 16

What is impairment in speaking, writing, and sign language?

• Comprehension of speech is often good to very good.
• Able to communicate by gestures or pantomime.

Answer 16

Broca’s Expressive/Non-fluent/Motor Aphasia

Question 17

What is production of few words?

• Frequently limited to nouns.
• Choppy (frequent pauses)
• May curse when frustrated.
• In extreme cases may have only one or a few words which are used for everything.

Answer 17

Telegraph speech

Question 18

What is the inability to produce altered tone and rhythm or associated gestures during speaking or sign language.

• Monotome as a result
• Appear apathetic

Answer 18

Motor aprosodia

Question 19

What is setting goals - goal oriented behavior.

• Making plans and decisions
• Execution of a plan
• Organization and time management
• Divergent thinking

Answer 19

Executive function

Question 20

What is thinking of the different possibilities?

Answer 20

Divergent thinking