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Ideational Apraxia

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Inability to UNDERSTAND demands of motor task

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Ideomotor Apraxia I

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Inability to ACCESS correct motor plan

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Ideomotor Apraxia II

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Inability to IMPLEMENT appropriate motor plan

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Dressing Apraxia

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Inability to dress self 2* impairment in body schema or perceptual motor function

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Stereotypic Movement

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Hard wired motor patterns

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Automated Movements

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Movement patterns that have become automatic (ex: driving, walking)

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Hemiballismus

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Violent thrashing of the limb contralateral to the lesion

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Ballismus

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Bilateral lesion leading to violent thrashing of limb(s)

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Athetosis

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Slow, flailing, purposeless distal movement

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Chorea

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Dance-like, sudden, jerky movements

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Dystonia

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Repetitive twisting movements leading to abnormal postures

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Dyskinesia

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Rhythmic, repetitive movements with odd qualities

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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Odd movements 2* chronic use of neuroleptics

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Tics

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Brief, involuntary, purposeless movements resulting from increased sensitivity to dopamine

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Echolalia

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Involuntary repetition of words spoken by someone else

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Palilalia

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Involuntary repetition of words or sentences

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Coprolalia

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Involuntary utterance of curse words

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Thalamus Syndrome

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Hypo- or Hypersensitivity to sensations

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Thalamus Tumors

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Cause paralysis of the involved body part of contralateral side

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Reticular Activating System

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Role = wakefulness

  • alerts cortex to incoming sensory info
  • filters out unnecessary info
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Reticular Inhibiting System

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Role = sleep & unconsciousness

* calms body in response to specific sensory data

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Reticular Formation

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Role = regulates consciousness, controls muscle tone, controls pain, regulates circadian rhythm

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Persistent Vegetative State

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  • Neurologic destruction in cerebral hemisphere(s) 2* decreased oxygen from cardiac or respiratory arrest
  • Cough, swallow, and gag reflexes remain intact
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Brain Death

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  • All brain stem functions lost; heart may continue to beat

* Cough, gag & swallow reflexes lost

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Astereognosis
Inability to identify objects by touch alone
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Two-Point Discrimination
Inability to determine if touched by 2 points or 1
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Agraphesthesia
Inability to interpret letters formed on hand contralateral to affected side
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Extinction of Simultaneous Stimulation
Inability to feel touch on affected side when touched on 2 different areas on opposite sides of the body
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Abarognosis
Inability to estimate weight of objects
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Atopognosia
Inability to localize exact origin of sensation
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Broca's Aphasia
Nonfluent speech, can understand language but can't express it
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Wernicke's Aphasia
Can't understand spoken language, but can speak
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Savant Syndrome
Low IQ kids develop high level skills in art, music, math, or memory
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Neuroplasticity
Other areas of the brain take over for affected or damaged areas and create new pathways for the brain to heal
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Visual Agnosia
Inability to recognize familiar objects or people
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Prosopagnosia
Inability to identify familiar faces
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Simultanagnosia
Difficulty interpreting visual stimulation as a whole
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Metamorphosia
Distortion of physical properties of objects (ex: appear bigger or heavier)
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Color Agnosia
Don't know colors of common objects
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Color Anomia
Can't remember the names of colors
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Cerebral Achromatopsia
Memory of color is erased; world is seen in shades of gray
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Right- Left Discrimination Dysfunction
Inability to distinguish left from rights
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Figure-Ground Discrimination Dysfunction
Difficulty distinguishing foreground from background
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Form-Constancy Dysfunction
Difficulty attending to variations in form (ex: change in size)
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Position in Space Dysfunction
Difficulty with
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Topographical Disorientation
Difficulty relating one location to another
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Stereopsis / Depth Perception Dysfunction
Difficulty determining closeness of objects
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Anosagnosia
Severe neglect to one side including loss of awareness and paralysis
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Finger Agnosia
Impaired ability to identify and localize ones fingers
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Unilateral Neglect
Loss of awareness of one side (more often left than right)
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Alexia
Inability to comprehend the written word or read
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Dyslexia
Impaired ability to read; can't separate phonemes
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Asymbolia
Difficulty interpreting symbols & gestures
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Aprosodia
Difficulty understanding tonal inflections
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Anomia
Inability to remember names of people or objects
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Agrommation
Inability to arrange words to make sentences
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Agraphia
Inability to write words or sentences
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Acalculia
Inability to calculate math problems
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Alexithymia
Inability to express emotion using words
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2D & 3D Constructional Apraxia
Inability to copy 2D or 3D models
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Tactile Agnosia
Inability to attach meaning to somatosensory data
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Ahylognosia
Inability to discriminate materials by touch
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Amorphognosia
Inability to discriminate shapes by touch
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Agraphesthesia
Inability to determine letters when written on the contralateral hand
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Synesthesia
Combining senses in response to stimuli (ex: seeing colors when reading the alphabet)
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Migraine Induced Auras
Cortically generated perceptions or hallucinations involving odor, color, sound, taste, or visual symptoms
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Apraxia
Impairment in motor planning
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Anterior/Ventral
Front or belly of being
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Posterior/Dorsal
Back of organism
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Superior
Above
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Inferior
Below
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Rostral
Head of organism or above
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Caudal
Tail of organism or below
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Medial
Middle or midline
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Lateral
Further from midline
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Midsagittal
Divided left & right cerebral hemispheres
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Sagittal or Parasagittal
Parallel to the midsagittal plane
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Coronal/Frontal/Transverse
Perpendicular to sagittal planes | *divides anterior from posterior
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Horizontal
Divides superior from inferior aspects of brain
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Gyri / Gyrus
Wrinkles or folds
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Sulci / Sulcus
Valleys or crevices on surface of brain

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