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31 Cards in this Set
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Frontal Lobe |
personality behavior, etc. |
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Temporal |
hearing, taste, smell (olfactory) |
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Broca's Area |
in frontal lobe, motor speech abnormal: expressive aphasia-person can't talk |
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parietal |
sensation |
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wernicke's area |
in temporal, speech comprehension receptive aphasia- dont understand |
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occipital |
visual reception |
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cerebellum |
motor coordination equilibrium balance |
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spinal cord |
cervical 8 thoracic 12 lumbar 5 sacral 5 |
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balance test |
cerebellum gait and tandem walking romberg test (swaying) |
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ram |
rapid alternating movements patty cake on thighs (palm and dorsal) touch each finger to thumb rapidly |
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coordination and skilled movements |
finger to nose finger-nose(your finger) heel to shin |
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four types of reflexes |
deep tendon (ex. knee jerk) superficial (ex. corneal) visceral (ex. pupillary response to light) pathologic (ex. w/ stroking; abnormal; babinski) |
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cranial nerves enter and exit where? |
the brain rather than the spinal cord |
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reinforcement |
patient focus on another action while you perform reflex |
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scale for reflexes |
1+ low 2+ normal 3+ brisker than average (maybe disease) 4+ hyperactive with clonus (disease) |
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posterior column vibrational assessment |
normal client perceives a buzzing or tingling sensation when a bony prominence touches base of vibrating fork |
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sensation assessment |
kinesthetic sensation, with person's eyes closed, place fingers on each side of patients finger and move it and ask them what direction it went. tactile- stereognosis (knowing object by touch) and graphesthesia (what letter or number is written on hand) two point discrimination- either 1 or 2 parts of skin is being stimulated |
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Brief neuro exam |
every patient gets this level of consciousness glasgow coma scale pupillary response vital signs |
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abnormal posturing |
decorticate- flexed in tight decerebrate- upper arm strain and hands come out |
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abnormal pupillary response |
inequality of pupils, one is less than 1 mm. dolls eyes- their eyes don't track. |
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vital sign changes? |
changes occur late. |
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bell's palsy |
injury to CN7; forehead is tight and unilateral in drooping. |
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neuropathy |
loss of sensation, peripheral then core. |
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syncope |
sudden loss of strength, temporary loss of consciousness caused by lack of cerebral blood flow and low BP |
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vertigo |
rotational spinning |
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paresis |
partial paralysis |
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dysmetria |
inability to control the distance of muscular action. |
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paresthesia |
abnormal sensation |
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dysarthia |
difficulty forming words |
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analgesia |
absent pain sensation |
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anesthesia |
absent touch sensation |
