Vocabulary

Question 1

agnosia

Answer 1

impairment of identifying stimuli after structural brain injury.
*can be visual, auditory, or tactile

Question 2

anosognosia

Answer 2

unawareness of cognitive impairment after structural brain injury

Question 3

aphasia

Answer 3

impairment in language skills following structural brain injury

Question 4

ataxia

Answer 4

motor in-coordination that can affect the fingers, hands, arms, legs, body, speech or eyes following structural brain injury.
Associated w/ injury to the cerebellum

Question 5

alexia

Answer 5

reading impairment after structural brain injury

Question 6

agraphia

Answer 6

writing impairment after structural brain injury

Question 7

acalculia

Answer 7

difficulty performing simple math (impaired arithmetic skill)

Question 8

aguesia

Answer 8

inability to taste

Question 9

apraxia

Answer 9

impairment of voluntary movement following structural brain injury.
Tested by having the patient pantomime certain actions.

Question 10

alien hand sign

Answer 10

a symptom of structural brain injury whereby purposeful movements of the upper extremity that the patient reports are beyond his control.

Question 11

dysarthria

Answer 11

Disturbance of the notoria aspects of expressive speech (speech production impaired)

Question 12

Prosopagnosia

Answer 12

Impairment of recognition of faces

Question 13

Hemiachromatopsia

Answer 13

Impairment of color vision with preserved vision for forms

Question 14

Anoxia

Answer 14

Lack of oxygen supply to the brain