Vocab (focal brain2)

Question 1

What is Agnosia?

Answer 1

Cannot recognize an object (Bilateral lesion of occipital cortex)

Question 2

What is Prosopagnosia

Answer 2

Inability to recognize faces (due to disconnection of inferior visual association cortex from non-dominant temporal cortex)

Question 3

What is autoprosopagnosia?

Answer 3

Inability to recognize self in the mirror

Question 4

What is simultanagnosia?

Answer 4

Inability to perceive the visual field as a whole

Question 5

What is oculomotor apraxia?

Answer 5

Difficulty in fixating the eyes

Question 6

What is optic ataxia?

Answer 6

Inability to move the hand to a specific object using vision

Question 7

What is dysphagia?

Answer 7

Difficulty in swallowing
(dysphasic patients speak slowly, make grammatical errors)

Question 8

What is astereoagnosia?

Answer 8

patient cannot name object held in hand with eyes closed based on weight and 3D characteristics

Question 9

What is agraphesthesia?

Answer 9

numbers/letters written on patients skin not recognized by touch

Question 10

What is hemiparesis/hemiplegia?

Answer 10

Paralysis that only affects 1 side of your body

Question 11

What is alexia?

Answer 11

inability to read or recognize words

Question 12

What is dysphasia?

Answer 12

impairment/inability to produce speech

Question 13

What is receptive dysphasia? (Wernicke’s aphasia)

Answer 13

Difficulty understanding of written/spoken language

Question 14

What is conduction aphasia?

Answer 14

Difficulty/impairment with repetition of simple phrases (lesion of arcuate fasciculus; connects Wernicke’s to Broca’s area)

Question 15

What is achromatopsia?

Answer 15

Loss of color vision
(lesion in BA19)

Question 16

What is receptive aprosody?

Answer 16

can result from impairment at one or more sensory and/or cognitive levels ranging from hearing (signal acquisition) to auditory processing (signal isolation) to emotional comprehension (signal interpretation).

Question 17

What is phonagnosia

Answer 17

Failure to recognize familiar voices

Question 18

What is Dysmorphopsia?

Answer 18

inability to correctly perceive objects

Question 19

What is micropsia vs macropsia?

Answer 19

micropsia= visual objects are perceived to be smaller than objectively sized

macropsia= visual objects perceived to be larger than really are

Question 20

What is anosognosia?

Answer 20

denial of disability

Question 21

What is anosodiaphoria?

Answer 21

indifference to disability

Question 22

What is asomatognosia?

Answer 22

a patient’s feeling that parts of his or her body are “missing” or have disappeared from corporeal awareness.

(e.g. left side limbs cannot be recognized or entirely disowned)

Question 23

What is apraxia?

Answer 23

Unable to perform tasks/movements when asked (voluntary)

Question 24

What is ideomotor apraxia?

Answer 24

where individual movements are not available to the patient voluntarily

Question 25

What is ideational apraxia?

Answer 25

individual movements can be called up, but a complex motor plan involving all elements of a motor act cannot successfully be executed.

Question 26

What is ataxia?

Answer 26

Impairment in muscle control, causing clumsy voluntary movements, usually related to the cerebellum

Can affect coordination, balance, and speech

Question 27

What is agraphia?

Answer 27

Inability to write

Question 28

What is mutism?

Answer 28

Inability to speak

Question 29

What is akinetic mutism?

Answer 29

neither move or speak