Somatosensation

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What is agnosia not due to

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A result of loss of hearing or vision

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Agnosia

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Sensory disorder- an inability to recognize what is perceived

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Agnosia

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Actual sensory receptors, sense organs, and pathways conveying info to the thalamus and cortex and primary sensory cortex itself are intact

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Agnosia usually acquired if

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Site of lesion is in secondary assoc areas of cortex- post/sup parietal lobe
Pure agnosia rare
Many types if agnosia a in all different sensory modalities

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Capgras syndrome

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Perceive family members replaced by impostors

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Visual neglect

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Attentional problem, failure to process an entire hemi-space

You can see, hear, feel, but brain does not recognize because over the midline does not exist

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Finger agnosia

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Inability to recognize own fingers or others

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Graphestgesia

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Inability to recognize writing on ones skin

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Phantom limb

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The sensation that a missing limb is still present, may feel pain or movement

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Aphasia

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Acquired disorder of language comprehension, language formulation, language production

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Auditory agnosia

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Inability to comprehend speech or non-speech sounds
Even when show object no perception
Vocalize but not process that not make sense

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Auditory processing disorder

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Disorder perceiving heard language (broadly speaking)

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Language processing disorder

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Disorder attaching meaning to language - broadly speaking

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Prosopagnosia

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Inability to recognize once familiar faces

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Visual processing disorder

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Disorder interpreting seen information/stimuli

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Visual agnosia

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Inability to recognize objects, pictures, colors

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Somatosensory system handles the experience of bodily sensations

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Touch, feel, texture, pressure, proprioception, movement, temp

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Somatosensory system is fairly complex

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3 neuron set up

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Sensory info moves upwards

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Becoming more refined or enhanced or integrated at each level of processing

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Sensory info is used for more than just perceiving input

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Sensory feedback is also used by the motor programming system to help refine and edit intended movements

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Sensation is not perception

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Sensation is the awareness of a stimulus either external or internal
Perception is the meaningful interpretation of those Stimuli

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Common terms for somatosensation

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Pain
Temp
Touch
Proprioception

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Mechanoreceptive

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Touch
Pressure
Tactile vibration
Kinesthesia (movement/post of limbs)

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Thermoreceptive

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Cold and heat

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Nociceptive

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Pain