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Broca's aphasia/motor apahasia/nonfluent aphasia/ expressive aphasia
" nonfluent; poor naming; ok comprehension; poor repetition.
----Dominant Broca's Area (44; 45)"
motor aprosodia
cannot use intonation in voice----Non-dominant Broca's area (44; 45)
motor apraxia
inability to carry out purposeful movements----supplemental motor region (6)
Jacksonian seizures
motor seizures following homoculus path----precentral sulcus (4)
hemianesthesia
anesthesia of one side of the body----primary somatosensory (3; 1; 2)
astereognosia
inability to recognize objects by touch----primary somatosensory (3; 1; 2)
Frontal eye field lesion
inability to make voluntary saccades to contra lateral side----Frontal eye field (8)
ideomotor apraxia
inability to use an object when asked----inferior parietal lobule (39; 40)
ideational apraxia
in ability to execute complex multi tasks when asked----inferior parietal lobule (39; 40)
constructional apraxia
inability to put things together to make a meaningful whole (draw intersecting pentagos)----inferior parietal lobule (39; 40)
Gertsmann's syndrome
left-right confusiton; finger agnosia; agraphia; acalculia----Dominant inferior parietal lobe (39;40)
finger agnosia
cannot recognize individual fingers----a part of Gertsmann's syndrome (dominant 39; 40)
agraphia
inability to write----a part of Gertsmann's syndrome (dominant 39; 40)
acalculia
impairment to do simple math----a part of Gertsmann's syndrome (dominant 39; 40)
balint's syndrome
optic ataxia; simultanagnosia----Non-dominant inferior parietal lobe
optic ataxia
lack of hand/eye coordination----part of blint's syndrome (nondominant 39;40)
simultanagnosia
inability to perceive more than one object at once----part of blint's syndrome (nondominant 39;40)
contralateral neglect/hemineglect
constructional apraxia----non-dominant parietal lobe lesions
asomatognosia
ignoring parts of one's body----non-dominant parietal lobe lesions
anosognosia
does not know that something is wrong----non-dominant parietal lobe lesions
Wernicke's aphasia; sensory aphasia; receptive aphasia
non-fluent; paraphasic errors (naming things); poor comprehension; poor repitition----dominant Wernicke's area (40; 39; 22)
sensory aprosodia
cannot recognize intonations in voice----non-dominant Wernicke's area (40; 39; 22)
global aphasia
impaired fluency; comprehension; and repitition----lesion of both Broca's and Wernicke's area
transcortical motor aphasia
impaired fluency; intact comprehension; intact repition----region around Broca's
transcortical sensory aphasia
intact fluency; impaired comprehension; intact repitition----region around Wernicke's
mixed transcortical aphasia
impaired fluency; impaired comprehension; intact repition----region around both Broca's and Wernicke's
conduction aphasia
normal fluency (minor impairment); normal comprehension; impaired repitition----arcuate fasiculus
Kulver Bucy Syndrome
memory disorders; emotional deficits (fealessness); hypersexuality; visual agnosia.----Temporal lobe lesion
visual agnosia
inability to recognize familiar objects----inferior temporal lobule lesion
prosopagnosia
inability to recognize familiar faces----inferior temporal lobule lesion
achromatopsia
inability to recognize colors----inferior temporal lobule lesion
dysmetria
past pointing----cerebellum
dysarthria
coordinate mm involved in speech----cerebellum
dysdiadochokinesia
inability to pronate sup hand----cerebellum
akathesia
involuntary movments----part of parkinson's symptoms
athetosis
postural disturbance ----basal ganglia
chorea
quick involuntary movements----indirect striatum basal ganglia
hemiballismus
unilateral gross movements----subthalatmic nuclei; basal ganglia
dystonia
persistant abnormal posture----basal ganglia
Author
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Neurological Diseases.csv
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Neurological Diseases
Updated
11/20/2011, 3:11:08 PM
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