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Week 1-3 Review (neuro) Flashcards

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agnosia

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inability to recognize familiar objects with one sense (ex: sight)

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akinesia

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inability to initiate movement (common in Parkinson’s)

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apraxia

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inability to perform previously learned task (ideational = doesn’t get it, ideomotor = cannot do the task)

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asynergia

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inability to move muscles together in a coordinated manner

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athetosis

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slow, worm-like, twisting motions (common in CP)

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causalgia

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painful, burning sensations common in CRPS type 1

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chorea

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rapid, involuntary, jerky movements (common in Huntington’s)

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decorticate rigidity

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contraction of UE flexors and LE extensors (damage of motor tracts above red nucleus in midbrain)

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dysdiadochokinesia

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impaired rapid alternating movements (common in cerebellar disorders)

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dysmetria

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inability to judge distances (common in cerebellar dysfunction)

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Horner’s syndrome

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drooping of eyelid, constriction of pupil, lack of sweating (damage to sympathetic tract)

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somatagnosia

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lack of awareness of relationship of one’s own body parts or the body parts of others

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homonymous hemianopsia

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damage to optic TRACT (loss of half of visual FIELD)

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bitemporal hemianopsia

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damage to optic CHIASM (loss of peripheral vision), tunnel vision

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monocular blindness

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damage to the optic NERVE (loss of vision in one eye)

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MCA stroke deficits

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  • MOST COMMON STROKE
  • contralateral sensory/motor deficits in FACE and UE
  • aphasia (dominant)/perceptual problems (non-dom)
  • contralateral homonymous hemianopsia
  • main branch –> global aphasia
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ACA stroke deficits

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  • sensory/motor deficits in LE
  • urinary incontinence
  • mental deficits (confusion, amnesia, apathy, short attention span)
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PCA stroke deficits

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  • visual deficits (HH, visual agnosia, prosopagnosia)
  • aphasia
  • thalamic pain syndrome
  • hemiplegia if cerebral peduncle involved
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vertebral-basilar stroke deficits

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  • locked-in syndrome (quadriparxsis and bulbar palsy) or death from edema
  • other symptoms: vertigo, coma, diplopia, nausea, dysphagia, ataxia, cranial nerve impairments
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anterior inferior cerebellar stroke deficits

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  • Horner’s syndrome, lateral gaze deficits, unilateral deafness
  • contralateral loss of pain and temperature
  • vertigo, ataxia, nystagmus
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superior cerebellar stroke deficits

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  • severe ataxia
  • contralateral loss of pain and temperature
  • dysarthria, dysmetria
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posterior inferior cerebellar stroke deficits

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  • Wallenberg’s syndrome (vertigo, nausea, hoarseness, dysphasia, ptosis)
  • impairment of sensation in ipsilateral face and contralateral torso and limbs
  • possible Horner’s syndrome
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23
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flexion synergy UE

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scapular elevation and retraction
shoulder abduction and external rotation
elbow flexion
forearm supination and wrist/finger flexion

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flexion synergy LE

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hip flexion, abduction, external rotation
knee flexion
ankle dorsiflexion and inversion
great toe extension

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commonalities between flexion and extension synergies

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wrist/finger flexion and ankle inversion

26
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perceptual problems with R sided stroke

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  • irritable, poor safety awareness, impulsive

- L neglect, impaired learning, spatial relationships impaired

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perceptual problems with L sided stroke

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  • anxious, slow, difficulties initiating, perseveratory

- aphasia, apraxia

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Ranchos Los Amigos Levels

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  1. no response
  2. general response
  3. localized response
  4. confused agitation
  5. confused inappropriate
  6. confused appropriate
  7. automatic appropriate
  8. purposeful appropriate
29
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obtunded

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difficult to arouse, may be confused when awake

30
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stupor

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only able to be aroused with strong, noxious stimuli and returns to unconscious state when stimulation stops

31
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three mechanisms of secondary tissue destruction in SCI

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ischemia, edema, demyelination/destruction(too much calcium in cells)

32
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brown squared syndrome is ___section of spinal cord

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hemisection

33
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autonomic dysreflexia occurs in SCI above ___

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T6

34
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heterotrophic bone formation

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new bone forms in muscles or connective tissue below SCI lesion (1-4 months after injury)

35
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ALS has what motor and sensory symptoms

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both upper and lower motor symptoms and little/no sensory symptoms

36
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ALS typical presentation

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distal to proximal asymmetrical muscle weakness, dysarthria/dysphagia are common presenting signs

37
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Bell’s palsy

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facial nerve paralysis from inflammation. presentation dependent on branch of nerve affected

38
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is GBS peripheral or central

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peripheral –> flaccid

39
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is MS peripheral or central

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central –> spastic

40
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PD core symptoms

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rigidity
bradykinesia
resting tremor
postural instability

41
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MS heat or cold intolerance??

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heat intolerance

42
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two neuromuscular junction disorders (NMJD) – both are considered acquired

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myasthenia gravis (postsynaptic)
lamber-eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) (presynaptic
43
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myopathy is proximal or distal??

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proximal first

44
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polyneuropathy is proximal or distal??

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distal first except GBS

45
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thalamic pain is a result of what type of stroke?

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posterior cerebral artery

46
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CRPS 1 vs. CRPS 2

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in CRPS 1 there is no nerve injury, in CRPS 2 there is a nerve injury involved

47
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radiculalgia

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neuralgia of nerve roots

48
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myofascial pain syndrome (MPS)

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persistent, deep aching pains in muscle
nonarticular in origin
trigger points

49
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fibromyalgia

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widespread pain

nonarticular rheumatic disease

50
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agonist reversal

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resistance through both concentric and eccentric phase (glute bridge)

51
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approximation promotes stability or mobility?

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stability by stimulating afferent nerves to facilitate postural extensors

52
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rhythmic initiation

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PROM -> AAROM -> AROM (think scapula)

53
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rhythmic stabilization

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both patterns (agonist and antagonist)
*this is what we learned in class
54
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exteroceptive stimulation

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facilitation or inhibition of muscles

55
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motor plan vs. program

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a motor plan is the overall strategy for movement, made up of multiple Motor programs coordinated

56
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flaccid bladders occur at what level

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below S2

57
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athetoid CP results from

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basal ganglia involvement

58
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asthenia

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general muscle weakness

59
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dysmetria

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inability to control the range of movement and force of muscular activity

60
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dystonia

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similar to athetosis but more proximal (axial) movement compared to peripheral

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