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| Name 9 S&S of CNS Disorders |
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-Alterations of Consciousness and Arousal
-Attention Deficits
-Disturbances of Higher Brain Fxn
-Lobar Disorders
-Cerebellar Disorders
-Sensory Disturbances
-Movement Disorders
-Cranial Nerve Involvement
-Recovery of Fxn - Physiological Basis |
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| Name 7 alterations of consciousness and arousal |
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Definition
Coma
Confusion
Restlessness
Agitation
Delirium
Stupor
Vegetative State |
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| Unarousable, not able to be awaken from unconsciousness |
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| Decreased arousal/attention |
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Restlessness
Agitation
Delirium |
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| Decreased arousal; requires vigorous stimulation |
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| A clinical condition in which there is complete absence of awareness of the self and the environment, accompanied by sleep-wake cycles, but with either partial or complete preservation of hypothalamic and brainstem autonomic functions; may be transient or permanent |
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| After 4 weeks in a vegetative state, the patient is classified as in a what? |
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| Persistent Vegetative State |
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| The diagnosis of being in a persistent vegitative state for approximately a year |
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| Permanent Vegatative State |
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| Cause is unknown but seems to be related to deficit in the parietal and frontal lobes |
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| Name 7 disturbances of higher brain function |
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Definition
-Delusions/hallucinations
-Memory (amnesia)
-Language (dysarthria, expressive aphasia)
-Reading (alexia)
-Writing (agraphia)
-Purposeful movements (apraxia)
-See, hearing, or feeling (agnosia) |
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Term
| R hemisphere disorder results in what? |
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Definition
| L hemineglect, spatial disorientation |
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| Temporal or limbic lobe disorder results in what? |
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Definition
| Emotions, pleasure, pain, anger, fear |
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| Damage to the frontal lobe results in what? |
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Definition
| Personality, character, cognitive skills |
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Term
| Involved in the coordination of all skeletal movement. These disorders result in discoordinated movement |
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| Disorders of the afferent nerve, dorsal columns of the spinal cord, and the brainstem result in tactile, numbness, tingling, and parasthesia disorders. Deficits in proprioception. Blindness in all or part of the visual field. |
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| Movement or motor pattern disorders can be a result of many possible disturbances in the CNS or PNS |
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| Injury to a nerve and disruption of the neural pathway; as nerves regain function, the patient regains function |
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| Neural injury may be related to swelling around the nerve or nearby issues. What must occur to recover? |
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