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ischemic stroke
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oxygen is deprived from the brain causing brain cells to not function
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Hemorrhagic stroke
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blood vessel erupts in brain
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Two types of ischemic strokes
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Thrombosis- stationary occlusion of a vessel
Embolism- occlusion of vessel by embolus |
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Broca's aphasia characteristics
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speech output slow, effort full, telegraphic
pauses b/t words and phrases limited vocabulary spared auditory comprehension reading comp is spared or impaired writing mirrors speech |
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Wernicke's aphasia characteristics
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auditory comprehension is greatly impaired
fluent speech (but too many words) impaired word retrieval impaired reading mirrors auditory comp writing impaired (can write but is jargon and makes no sense) |
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Conduction aphasia characteristics
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spared auditory comprehension
impaired repetition fluent speech with pauses spared reading impaired writing (poor spelling) |
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Global aphasia characteristics
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severe language deficits in all modalities
limited verbal output (one or two words) can not repeat usually have hemiplegia and visual field loss |
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Standardized test used to diagnose aphasia
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Western aphasia battery
Aphasia language performance scale (ALPS) Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE) |
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Anomic Aphasia characteristics
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fluent speech
spared auditory comprehension spared repetition ability severely impaired word finding |
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Right hemisphere disorder
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mild word finding problems
mild auditory comprehension problems hemispatial neglect agnosia deficits in humor, topic maintenance, interpreting facial expressions |
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memory is processed
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both implicitly and explicitly
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Dementia is
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progressive loss of intellect, memory, personality, and communication due to problems with central nervous system
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Causes of dementia
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Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's, Huntington's, infectious disease, alcohol related, hydrocephalous
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subcortical dementia vs. cortical dementia
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sub-cortical causes movement disorders from onset but is not seen in cortical till later on. cortical is language disorder
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mulit-infarct dementia
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caused by stroke
effects men more than women associated with physical problems such as paralysis |
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Picks disease is diagnosed by
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form of dementia diagnosed with behavior changes, language deficits, with spared memory
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Huntington's disease is caused by
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degeneration of neurons in basal ganglia, striatum, caudate nuclei, or palladium
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Huntinton's disease is diagnosed by
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uncontrolled movements, loss of intellect, emotional disturbances
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levels of TBI assessment
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low level (I, II, III), middle stages (IV, V), highg function (VI, VII, VIII)
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Low level TBI (I,II,III) assessment
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coma assessment, sensory assessment
How the patient is responding to sensory around them |
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Middle stages TBI (IV, V) assessmet
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agitation level
informal assessment of attention and memory |
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Higher functioning (VI, VII, VIII) assessment
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use formal assessment
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simple skull fracture
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crack on the skull, skin not broken
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compound skull fracture
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crack in skull and skin is broken
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comminuted skull fracture
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area of skull bone is broken into many pieces
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