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CVA
Question | Answer |
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aphasia | neurological language disorder |
global aphasia | loss of all language ability |
Broca's aphasia | broken speech slow labored speech with frequent mispronunciations |
Wernicke's aphasia | receptive aphasia impaired auditory reception speech may be fluent but meaningless or nonsensical |
Anomic aphasia | difficulty finding words |
dysarthria | articulation disorder resulting from paralysis of organs of speech |
spatial relations and positioning | difficulty perceiving distance and object placement |
spatial neglect | inability to recognize stimuli in a particular area of the environment, generally contralateral side of body |
body neglect | spatial neglect of own body, contralaterally |
motor apraxia | difficulty completing planned movements |
ideational apraxia | difficulty conceptualizing planned, multistep movements |
figure ground | difficulty differentiating object from its background |
initiation | difficulty beginning an activity or movement |
visual agnosia | difficulty recognizing objects |
subluxation | glenohumeral joint caused by humeral head moving downward from joint |
MCA and internal carotid | contralateral hemiplegia, anesthesia, homonymous hemianopsia, aphasia, apraxia, unilateral neglect, spatial dysfunction |
ACA | contralateral hemiplegia, grasp reflex, incontinent, confusion, apathy, mutism |
PCA | homonymous hemianopsia, thalamic pain, hemisensory loss, alexia |
vertebrobasilar | pseudobulbar (dysarthria, dysphagia, emotional instability, tetraplegia |