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Loss of motor skills:

Apraxia

Another term for Organic:

Biogenic

Loss of language: ___ which can be of two types: ___ or ___ and ___ or ___

Aphasia, Fluent, or Wernicke's and Nonfluent, or Broca's

A term used when there is no physical cause which is found:

Psychogenic

Mad cow disease: ___ Caused by 3rd stage of syphilis:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob, General paresis

Two types of amnesia (the former for more recent memories): ___ (while the latter is for more distant memories): ___

Anteriograde, Retrograde

Seen in the unresponsive pt:

Stupor

Confusion which has a quick onset: ___ Confusion which has a slow one: ___

Delirium, Dementia

Seizures with a known cause: ___ Seizures which probably have a genetic basis:___

Symptomatic, Idiopathic

An ultimate result of HIV: ___ Sometimes seen after a contusion: ___

AIDS dementia, Acute confusional state

Caused by a tick bite: ___ Caused by a mosquito's bite: ___

Lyme's disease, Encephalitis

An inflammation of the covering of the brain:

Meningitis

Three types of Traumatic brain injury:

Concussion, Penetrating head wound, Contusion

A signal that a seizure is coming:

Aura

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

___ is sometimes seen in alcoholics and is caused by ___ deficiency.

Korsakoff's, Vitamin B

___ is another term for "petit mal", ___ is the newer term for "grand mal"

Absence, Tonic-clonic

___ is another term for stroke. The two basic type of strokes are: ___ & ___

CVA, Infarction and Hemorrage

Results from over active thyroid: ___ while ___ results from an underactive adrenal gland.

Graves' disease, Addison's disease

The presence of these is usually confirmed only upon autopsy: ___

Lewy bodies