Neurological Disorders & Symptoms

Question 1

Aphasia

Answer 1

Difficulty understanding language or using language to speak or write

Question 2

Agnosia

Answer 2

Inability to recognize familiar OBJECTS

Question 3

Prosopagnosia

Answer 3

Inability to recognize familiar faces

Question 4

Acalculia

Answer 4

Inability to do simple arithmetic

Question 5

Dysarthria

Answer 5

Slurred speech

Question 6

Organic Brain Syndrome

Answer 6

Term used to describe physical disorders impair mental function

Common symptoms include confusion, agitation, impairment of memory, judgement and intellectual functioning

Disorders that may cause such injury/damage to the brain include alcoholism, Alzheimer’s, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs), Parkinson’s disease, and stroke

Question 7

Sciatica

Answer 7

Can include pain along a nerve pathway

Question 8

Tinnitus

Answer 8

Ringing or other sounds originating in the ears

Question 9

Delirium

Answer 9

Abrupt and acute; responds to treatment

Altered levels of alertness, consciousness

Impaired and fluctuating orientation, attention and awareness

Motor behavior can be lethargic or hyperactive

Impairment in immediate and recent memory

Thinking is disorganized, distorted, incoherent, slowed or accelerated

Irritable, aggressive, fearful

Stability can vary hour to hour

Question 10

Dementia

Answer 10

Slow but stable, chronic, deterioration over time

Impaired orientation, judgement, recent and immediate memory

Difficulty with abstract thinking; thoughts impoverished; difficulty finding words

ADLs and iADLs may be intact early on, become impaired as disease progresses

Labeled, apathetic, irritable

Alertness and motor behaviors can vary

Awareness and attention are usually normal and clear