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Perceptual Disorders
Neurorehabilitation perceptual disorders
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Health Care
Graduate
09/13/2013

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Ideational apraxia
Definition
Impairment in carrying out complex, sequential motor acts using common objects
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Ideomotor apraxia
Definition
Impairment in performing motor tasks on command, despite appearing to understand the concept
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Constructional apraxia
Definition
Impairment in producing designs in 2D or 3D on command or spontaneously
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Dressing apraxia
Definition
Inability to dress oneself as a result of body scheme and/or visual spatial relations
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Somatognosia
Definition
lack of awareness of body structure and failure to recognize body parts and their relationship to each other
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Finger agnosia
Definition
Inability to discriminate fingers, typically bilaterally
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Unilateral Inattention
Definition
Inability to perceive or integrate one side of the body
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Right-Left Discrimination
Definition
Inability to distinguish right from left
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Anosognosia
Definition
Inability to recognize existence of disease
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Form constancy (form discrimination)
Definition
Inability to recognize forms and shapes of objects; may confuse similar looking objects or be unable to distinguish between objects of similar shapes
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depth perception
Definition
Inability to perceive depth in relation to objects in the environment
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Figure ground
Definition
Inability to distinguish foreground from background
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Position in Space
Definition
Inability to recognize spatial orientation of objects
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Topographical orientation dysfunction
Definition
Inability to identify location of places in relation to one another
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Visual object agnosia
Definition
Inability to identify a common object when it is presented visually
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Prosopagnosia
Definition
Inability to distinguish people by the facial features
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Color agnosia
Definition
Inability to recognize color
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Color anomia
Definition
Able to distinguish color but unable to name it
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Astereognosis
Definition
Inability to distinguish objects through tactile input
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Agraphesthesia
Definition
Inability to recognize forms, letters, or numbers written on skin
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