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| The inability to write, in an individual who previously possessed the skill |
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| Difficulty with writing skills, in an individual who previously possessed this skill |
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| The inability to read, in an individual who previously possessed the skill. |
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| Difficulty with reading skills, in an individual who previously possessed the skill. |
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| Difficulty finding and using the appropriate word; "Word finding difficulty" |
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| Substitution of all or a part of a word, e.g., "Wrotebook" instead of "Notebook" |
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| Novel words that a patient spontaneously produces |
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| Language disturbance characterized by some or all the following errors: Errors of grammatical structure, difficulty finding and using the appropriate word (anomia), word substitutions (paraphasias),and impaired comprehension. |
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| Difficulty with word enunciation |
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| The inability to perform a planned motor activity in the absence of paralysis of the muscles normally used in the performance of that act |
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| Difficulty in performing a planned motor activity in the absence of paralysis of the relevant muscles |
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| Inability to recognize object by palpation (feeling) in the absence of a primary sensory deficit |
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| The inability to recognize familiar objects or persons |
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| Inability to identify fingers on request; often associated with L/R confusion, agraphia, and acalculia (Gerstmann's syndrome) |
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| Failure to recognize an object visually in the presence of adequate vision. Suggests lesion involving the visual association areas of the brain |
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| Paralysis of one side of the body secondary to brain injury |
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| The tendency to get "stuck" in repetition |
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| Changes in the orientation of a reproduced figure on a drawing task |
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| The inability to attend to one side of the visual/tactile field |
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| Involuntary movements, such as tics, grimaces, etc. |
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| Misperception of real stimuli |
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| Subjective sensory experiences without actual environmental stimuli |
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| The patient repeats a word, set of words, or topic, seemingly unable to shift to a new idea |
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| The patient has difficulty coming up with the term or topic s/he wants to address, and instead circles through peripheral topics in an attempt to "hit on" the correct term; "talking around" |
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| Ideation is disordered and difficult to follow; "loose associations" |
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| Associations are so loose that there is no obvious link from one word to the next; the effect is incoherent speech |
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| Fails to maintain normal alertness; will drift into sleep unless specifically stimulated |
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| Between lethargy and stupor; difficult to arouse and usually confused |
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| Semicoma; not self-alerting; responds only to persistent external stimulation |
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| Traditionally, patients who cannot be aroused, although other systems of nomenclature identify lighter states of coma |
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| Patient's inappropriate repetition of what s/he hears; may include exact repetition without regard for changes in pronouns |
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| Associated with sever memory loss, confabulation refers to the reporting of completely false information |
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| A strong sense of not being real or of not being one's self |
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| A sense that one has experienced in the past an event one is currently experiencing. Not unusual in persons with temporal lobe epilepsy. |
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| Inability to recognize faces |
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| Loss of half of vision from each eye |
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