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22 Cards in this Set
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Ataxia
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slurred speech, severe tremors, and loss of balance.
Similar to those produced by alcohol intoxication |
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Wernicke's Encephalopathy
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Mental confusion, abnormal eye movements, and ataxia.
Often followed by Korsakoff's Syndrome |
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flaccid hemiplegia
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Loss of muscle tone in areas of body contralateral to damage in the frontal love
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Broca's Aphasia
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AKA Expressive Aphasia or Motor Aphasia:
Difficulties producing spoken and written language. Comprehension remains relatively intact. Difficulties repeating phrases by others, Speak slowly and with difficulty with limited vocabulary. Anomia |
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Apraxia
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Most cases from damage to parietal lobe, but some to frontal lobe.
Inability to perform particular purposive actions |
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Ideomotor Apraxia
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inability to mimic a simple action in response to a request
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Tactile Agnosia
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Inability to recognize familiar objects by touch
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Asomatognosia
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failure to recognize parts of one's own body
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Anosognosia
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Inability to recognize one's own neurological symptoms or other disorder
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Ideational Apraxia
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inability to carry out a sequence of actions
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Agraphia (dysgraphia)
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inability to write
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Acalculia
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Inability to perform simple math
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Auditory Agnosia
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inability to recognize or understand the meaning of spoken words.
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Wernicke's Aphasia
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AKA Receptive Aphasia
Severe deficits in language comprehension and abnormalities in language production speech is rapid and seems effortless, but largely devoid of content |
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paraphasia
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substituting words related in meaning and sound
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Apperceptive Visual Agnosia
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unable to perceive objects despite intact visual acuity
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Associative Visual Agnsoia
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unable to recognize an object of focus as the result of impaired memory or inability to access relevant semantic knowledge
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Simultanagnosia
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inability to see more than one thing or one aspect of an object at a time
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Prosopagnosia
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inability to recognize familiar faces
lesions at junction of occipital, temporal, and parietal lobes |
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achromatopsia
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Inability to distinguish between different colors
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Color Agnosia
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Inability to pair particular colors with a specific object
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Anomia
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inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
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