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Ideational Apraxia

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Inability to UNDERSTAND demands of motor task

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Ideomotor Apraxia I

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Inability to ACCESS correct motor plan

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Ideomotor Apraxia II

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Inability to IMPLEMENT appropriate motor plan

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Dressing Apraxia

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Inability to dress self 2* impairment in body schema or perceptual motor function

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Stereotypic Movement

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Hard wired motor patterns

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Automated Movements

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Movement patterns that have become automatic (ex: driving, walking)

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Hemiballismus

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Violent thrashing of the limb contralateral to the lesion

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Ballismus

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Bilateral lesion leading to violent thrashing of limb(s)

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Athetosis

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Slow, flailing, purposeless distal movement

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Chorea

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Dance-like, sudden, jerky movements

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Dystonia

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Repetitive twisting movements leading to abnormal postures

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Dyskinesia

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Rhythmic, repetitive movements with odd qualities

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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Odd movements 2* chronic use of neuroleptics

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Tics

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Brief, involuntary, purposeless movements resulting from increased sensitivity to dopamine

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Echolalia

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Involuntary repetition of words spoken by someone else

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Palilalia

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Involuntary repetition of words or sentences

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Coprolalia

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Involuntary utterance of curse words

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Thalamus Syndrome

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Hypo- or Hypersensitivity to sensations

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Thalamus Tumors

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Cause paralysis of the involved body part of contralateral side

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Reticular Activating System

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Role = wakefulness

  • alerts cortex to incoming sensory info
  • filters out unnecessary info
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Reticular Inhibiting System

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Role = sleep & unconsciousness

* calms body in response to specific sensory data

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Reticular Formation

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Role = regulates consciousness, controls muscle tone, controls pain, regulates circadian rhythm

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Persistent Vegetative State

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  • Neurologic destruction in cerebral hemisphere(s) 2* decreased oxygen from cardiac or respiratory arrest
  • Cough, swallow, and gag reflexes remain intact
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Brain Death

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  • All brain stem functions lost; heart may continue to beat

* Cough, gag & swallow reflexes lost

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Astereognosis

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Inability to identify objects by touch alone

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Two-Point Discrimination

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Inability to determine if touched by 2 points or 1

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Agraphesthesia

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Inability to interpret letters formed on hand contralateral to affected side

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Extinction of Simultaneous Stimulation

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Inability to feel touch on affected side when touched on 2 different areas on opposite sides of the body

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Abarognosis

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Inability to estimate weight of objects

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Atopognosia

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Inability to localize exact origin of sensation

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Broca’s Aphasia

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Nonfluent speech, can understand language but can’t express it

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

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Can’t understand spoken language, but can speak

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Savant Syndrome

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Low IQ kids develop high level skills in art, music, math, or memory

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Neuroplasticity

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Other areas of the brain take over for affected or damaged areas and create new pathways for the brain to heal

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Visual Agnosia

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Inability to recognize familiar objects or people

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Prosopagnosia

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Inability to identify familiar faces

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Simultanagnosia

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Difficulty interpreting visual stimulation as a whole

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Metamorphosia

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Distortion of physical properties of objects (ex: appear bigger or heavier)

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Color Agnosia

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Don’t know colors of common objects

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Color Anomia

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Can’t remember the names of colors

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Cerebral Achromatopsia

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Memory of color is erased; world is seen in shades of gray

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Right- Left Discrimination Dysfunction

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Inability to distinguish left from rights

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Figure-Ground Discrimination Dysfunction

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Difficulty distinguishing foreground from background

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Form-Constancy Dysfunction

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Difficulty attending to variations in form (ex: change in size)

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Position in Space Dysfunction

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Difficulty with

46
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Topographical Disorientation

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Difficulty relating one location to another

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Stereopsis / Depth Perception Dysfunction

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Difficulty determining closeness of objects

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Anosagnosia

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Severe neglect to one side including loss of awareness and paralysis

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Finger Agnosia

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Impaired ability to identify and localize ones fingers

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Unilateral Neglect

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Loss of awareness of one side (more often left than right)

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Alexia

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Inability to comprehend the written word or read

52
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Dyslexia

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Impaired ability to read; can’t separate phonemes

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Asymbolia

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Difficulty interpreting symbols & gestures

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Aprosodia

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Difficulty understanding tonal inflections

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Anomia

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Inability to remember names of people or objects

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Agrommation

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Inability to arrange words to make sentences

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Agraphia

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Inability to write words or sentences

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Acalculia

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Inability to calculate math problems

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Alexithymia

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Inability to express emotion using words

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2D & 3D Constructional Apraxia

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Inability to copy 2D or 3D models

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Tactile Agnosia

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Inability to attach meaning to somatosensory data

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Ahylognosia

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Inability to discriminate materials by touch

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Amorphognosia

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Inability to discriminate shapes by touch

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Agraphesthesia

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Inability to determine letters when written on the contralateral hand

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Synesthesia

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Combining senses in response to stimuli (ex: seeing colors when reading the alphabet)

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Migraine Induced Auras

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Cortically generated perceptions or hallucinations involving odor, color, sound, taste, or visual symptoms

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Apraxia

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Impairment in motor planning

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Anterior/Ventral

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Front or belly of being

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Posterior/Dorsal

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Back of organism

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Superior

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Above

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Inferior

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Below

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Rostral

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Head of organism or above

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Caudal

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Tail of organism or below

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Medial

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Middle or midline

75
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Lateral

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Further from midline

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Midsagittal

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Divided left & right cerebral hemispheres

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Sagittal or Parasagittal

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Parallel to the midsagittal plane

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Coronal/Frontal/Transverse

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Perpendicular to sagittal planes

*divides anterior from posterior

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Horizontal

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Divides superior from inferior aspects of brain

80
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Gyri / Gyrus

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Wrinkles or folds

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Sulci / Sulcus

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Valleys or crevices on surface of brain

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