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Loss of motor skills: |
Apraxia |
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Another term for Organic: |
Biogenic |
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Loss of language: ___ which can be of two types: ___ or ___ and ___ or ___ |
Aphasia, Fluent, or Wernicke's and Nonfluent, or Broca's |
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A term used when there is no physical cause which is found: |
Psychogenic |
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Mad cow disease: ___ Caused by 3rd stage of syphilis: |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob, General paresis |
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Two types of amnesia (the former for more recent memories): ___ (while the latter is for more distant memories): ___ |
Anteriograde, Retrograde |
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Seen in the unresponsive pt: |
Stupor |
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Confusion which has a quick onset: ___ Confusion which has a slow one: ___ |
Delirium, Dementia |
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Seizures with a known cause: ___ Seizures which probably have a genetic basis:___ |
Symptomatic, Idiopathic |
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An ultimate result of HIV: ___ Sometimes seen after a contusion: ___ |
AIDS dementia, Acute confusional state |
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Caused by a tick bite: ___ Caused by a mosquito's bite: ___ |
Lyme's disease, Encephalitis |
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An inflammation of the covering of the brain: |
Meningitis |
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Three types of Traumatic brain injury: |
Concussion, Penetrating head wound, Contusion |
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A signal that a seizure is coming: |
Aura |
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Tumor which has spread from another site in the body: ___. Two types of primary tumors: ___ & ___. If a tumor is found IN THE brain, type of cell involved: ___ |
Metastatic, Intracerebral, Extracerebral, Glial |
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___ is sometimes seen in alcoholics and is caused by ___ deficiency. |
Korsakoff's, Vitamin B |
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___ is another term for "petit mal", ___ is the newer term for "grand mal" |
Absence, Tonic-clonic |
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___ is another term for stroke. The two basic type of strokes are: ___ & ___ |
CVA, Infarction and Hemorrage |
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Results from over active thyroid: ___ while ___ results from an underactive adrenal gland. |
Graves' disease, Addison's disease |
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The presence of these is usually confirmed only upon autopsy: ___ |
Lewy bodies |