Cognitive-Perceptual

Question 1

Acalculia

Answer 1

Inability to perform calculations

Question 2

Agraphia

Answer 2

inability to write

Question 3

Alexia

Answer 3

inability to read

Question 4

Anomia

Answer 4

loss of ability to name objects or retrieve names of people

Question 5

Anosognosia

Answer 5

unawareness of a motor deficit. May be related to lack of insight

Question 6

Broca’s (expressive) aphasia

Answer 6

loss of expressive language indicated by loss of speech production

Question 7

Wernicke’s (receptive) aphasia

Answer 7

a deficit in auditory comprehension that affects semantic speech performance

Question 8

Global aphasia

Answer 8

severe loss of ability to comprehend and express

Question 9

Ideational apraxia

Answer 9

a breakdown in the knowledge of what is to be done or how to perform; lack of knowledge regarding object use

Question 10

Motor apraxia/ ideomotor apraxia

Answer 10

loss of access to kinesthetic memory so purposeful movements cannot be achieved because of ineffective motor planning, although sensation, movement, and coordination are intact

Question 11

Astereognosis (AKA tactile agnosia)

Answer 11

inability to recognize objects forms, shapes and sizes by touch alone

Question 12

Body Scheme Disorders

Answer 12

loss of awareness of body parts, as well as the relationship of the body parts to each other and objects

Question 13

Right-Left Indiscrimination

Answer 13

inability to discriminate between the right and left sides of the body or to apply the concepts of right and left to the environment

Question 14

Asomatognosia

Answer 14

diminished awareness of body structure and a failure to recognize body parts as one’s own

Question 15

Unilateral body neglect

Answer 15

failure to respond to or report unilateral stimulus presented to the body side contralateral to the lesion

Question 16

Figure/ground dysfunction

Answer 16

inability to distinguish foreground from background (ex: difficulty locating white bar of soap on a white sink or difficulty finding a key in a cluttered drawer)

Question 17

Impaired organization/sequencing

Answer 17

inability to organize thoughts with activity steps properly sequences (ex: dons shoes and socks before pants)

Question 18

the continuation or repetition of a motor act (premotor perseveration) or task (prefrontal perseveration) (ex: continues to pull up sock even though it is already covering foot)

Answer 18

Perseveration

Question 19

Spatial relations impairment

Answer 19

difficulty relating objects to each other or to the self secondary to a loss of spatial concepts (up/down, front/back, under/over)

Question 20

Topographical disorientation

Answer 20

difficulty finding one’s way in space secondary to memory dysfunction or an inability to intercept sensory stimuli (after completing errant person tends to wonder and not find their way back home)

Question 21

Unilateral spatial neglect

Answer 21

inattention to, or neglect of stimuli presented in the extra-personal space contralateral to the lesion. May occur independently of visual deficits

Question 22

Visual Agnosia

Answer 22

Can not recognize object