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Graduate
09/05/2012

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Abulia
Definition

Loss of ability to make voluntary actions or decisions. Inability to motivate for action. Reduction in speech, thought, movement and emotional reactions.

 

Disorder of Diminished Motivation. More severe than apathy but less severe then akinetic mutism. 

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Agnosia
Definition

Impaired ability to recognize meaning of stimuli, with preserved perception and intellect.

 

Particularly common with occipitaltemporal border lesions. Types: Pure Word Deafness (Audiotry Verbal Agnosia). Cortical Deafness. 

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Agraphia
Definition

Inability to write.

Type of aphasia associated with Wernicke's area (broadman 39, 40 of parietal, 22 of temporal) 

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Agrammatism
Definition

Type of expressive aphasia-inability to speak in grammatically correct sentences. 

 

Pt. commonly uses telegraphic speech.

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Akinesia 
Definition

Hypokinetic disorder.

Inability to initiate movment due to diminished dopaminergic cell activity in CNS. Common in Parkinson. 

Pt. cannot activate or select motor programs.

Term
Akinetic Mutism
Definition

Lesion to the frontal lobe leads to gradual decrease of movement and speech.

Intact decending motor pathways. Intermittent alertness (sleep-wake). 

Term
Angular Gyrus
Definition

Broadman area 39.

 

language, math, body orientation.

 

Not as large in non-humans, may be responsible for out-of-body experiences. 

Term
Anosognosia
Definition

Inability to recognize own disease. 

 

Occurs with receptive aphasia. 

 

Can be global or selective denial of different defficits after a stroke or with Alzheimers. 

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Artirial Fibrilation 
Definition
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Astereognosis

 

Definition

Can't identify objects by touch without visual aid. 

 

parietal occipital lobe

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Bradykinesia 
Definition

Slowness

Parkinson 

Basial Ganglia disorder

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Diplopia 
Definition

double vision

extraocular muscles

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