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08/04/2012

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prosopagnosia
Definition
inability to recognize faces
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apperceptive visual agnosia
Definition
inability to identify and draw items using visual cues, with preservation of other sensory modalities
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associative visual agnosia
Definition
inability to name or use objects despite the ability to draw them
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color agnosia
Definition
inability to recognize a color despite being able to match it
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color anomia
Definition
inability to name a color despite the ability to point at it
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central achromatopsia
Definition
complete inability to perceive color
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Anton syndrome
Definition
failure to acknowledge blindness
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Balint syndrome
Definition
inability to direct optically guided movements, inability to direct gaze rapidly, inability to integrate a visual scene to perceive it as a whole
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oculomotor apraxia
Definition
inability to direct gaze rapidly
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simultanagnosia
Definition
inability to integrate a visual scene to perceive it as a whole
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Gerstmann syndrome
Definition
agraphia, acalculia, reight-left disorientation, finger angosia
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catalepsy
Definition
maintained, immobile position
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negativism
Definition
resistance to any movement
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automatism
Definition
automatic acts
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stereotypy
Definition
repetitive, fixed pattern of behavior or speech
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waxy flexibility
Definition
person can be molded like wax
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ideational apraxia
Definition
inability to put a sequence of skilled acts together in a row, though the individual may be able to perform each component of the sequence without error
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