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inability to recognize familiar objects
e.g. visual agnosia |
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| inability to initiate movement |
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brocas
verbal impairment in object naming and writing abilities. common w/ right hemiplegia |
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wernikes
cant understand what is being said to them |
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| no longer gets the idea on how to do a routine task |
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| cant perform on command but will with muscle memory |
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| cant recognize objects with touch alone |
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| cant move muscles in coordinated manner |
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| uncoordinated movement gait |
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slow involuntary worm like movements
seen in CP |
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| burning sensation seen in type 1 CRPS |
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| cheyne-stokes respiration |
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bizzare breathing
apnea for 10-60 seconds followed by increaseing then decreasing depth and frequencey
seen with depression of frontal lobe and diencephalon
TBI and CHF |
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rapid ivoluntary jerky movements
huntingtons chorea |
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| rhythmic oscillation in response to stretch UMN lesion |
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| UE/LE in extension brainstem injury |
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Ue flexed LE extended
corpse/mummylike |
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temorary confusion and loss of mental function
illness, drug toxicity, lack of O2
reversible |
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loss of memory and intellect
may be reversible if caused by drugs toxins metabolic or psychiatirc disorders
often slow progressive and nonreversibleif due to alcholoism alzheimers infarction PD |
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| cerebellar dysfunction cant judge distances |
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| used to measure voluntary electrical activation of muscle |
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| glove and stocking anesthesia |
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peripheral neuropathies
diabetes
guillain-barre |
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shingles virus
inflammation of posterior root ganglion forming vesicles along dermatome |
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ptosis of the eyelid pupil constriction lack of sweating on ipsilateral face
seen in stroke of ant/inf or post/inf cerebellar artery |
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| nerve conduction velocity NVC test |
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if nerve compressed or damaged the veolcity of action potential will be slowed and the latency"time to travel between two points will be increased"
use to determine severivty of nerve compression |
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| inhibition of antagonistic muscles to those being stimulated |
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| lack of awareness of the relationship of ones own body parts or the body parts of others |
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| deficit to either R or L visual fields due to contralateral optic tract damage |
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| loss of peripheral/temporal visual fields tunnel vision due to optic chiasm damage |
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