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15 Cards in this Set
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What is Broca's Aphasia?
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Difficulty understanding grammer (Syntax) not semantics (meaning).
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How is the right hemisphere involved in language?
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Metaphors, poetry, non-literal language.
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what are remote associations test? how to improve them?
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Assesses creativity. (Pie, Crab, and Pine) APPLE.
Squeeze a ball with the left hand to improve right hemisphere. |
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Interpreter=
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Language plus inference
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What is Spacial Neglect
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People not aware what they aren't seeing.
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What is an anosagnosic person?
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Person with injury to right parietal cannot locate their left hand.
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Name three things the left hemisphere is responsible for?
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Language, analytic and sequential thought.
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Name three things the right hemisphere is responsible for?
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Music, Visual-spatial, and simultaneous thought.
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What connects the 2 hemispheres?
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Corpus Callosum.
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What is severed to control epileptic seizures?
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Corpus Callosum.
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In a split brain patient what is unique about their right hemisphere?
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They can be aware of information, but cannot verbalize the information because language needs the left hemisphere.
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The split brain patient has trouble naming the object left of the dot, but can draw it. When asked why they drew it what is their response?
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the left hemisphere interprets actions initiated by the right hemisphere. Make connections between the 2 words. SHovel and chicken.
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What is the real definition of an anosagnosic patient?
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Patient lacks awareness and denies the existence of a severe neurological problem.
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What is amnesia?
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Patient loses memory and is confused about current surroundings.
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Name an example of a false memory?
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An amnesia patient doesnt realize they are inside a hospital. when asked about the elevators, the patient says, do you know how much it cost me to have those put in.
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