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Flashcards by Lidia Yamada, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lidia Yamada
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME (1 month) | SYMPTOMS: - Headache - Blurred vision - Photophobia - Anxiety - Apathy - Decreased concentration/ verbal fluency - Memory impairment |
| KORSAKOFF SYNDROME | Ataxia Nystagmus Ophthalmoplegia Delirium Short-term memory loss |
| MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT | - Cognitive impairment greater than expected for age; - Does not interfere with iADLs |
| TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA | - abrupt episode of profound anterograde amnesia - ability to recall what happens during episode is variable |
| KLUVER-BUCY | BL destruct. of amygdala: - hyperorality - hypersexuality - disinhibited behavior |
| Pseudobulbar Affect | - Involuntary emotion expression - Bilateral lesions - Disconnect corticobulbar tracts from brainstem cranial nervers nuclei |
| Pseudobulbar affect treatment | Dextromethorphan- quinidine |
| Alexia without agrafia (part 1- what) | - Loss of reading comprehension despite normal visual acuity - Usually can read the letters of the word - Writing and language comprehension are N - "Disconnection syndrome" |
| Alexia without agrafia (part 2- where) | - Usually L PCA territory - Medial and inferior occipital temporal region + splenium of corpus callosum |
| Alexia without agrafia (part 3- why) | Words seen in the intact visual field (ipsilateral) are not sent to Broca's area because of the corpus callosum lesion. |
| Propsopagnosia | - Inability to recognize faces - Face recognition- R hemisphere BUT - Prosopagnosia: lesion of bilateral temporal- occipital areas (FUSIFORM GYRI) |
| Topographagnosia (what) | - Defect in spatial orientation - Can't: navigate in familiar places follow maps draw spatial map of familiar places |
| Topographagnosia (where) | - R parietal - R posterior parahippocampal - R infracalcarine cortex |
| Anosagnosia | - Inability to recognize own body parts Where: - R superior parietal lobe |
| Misoplegia | - Hatred of one's own limb - R temporal- parietal - Can be violent and try to chop own limb |
| Somatophrenia | - Patient denies ownership of the limb - Claims it's missing or was stolen |
| CAPGRA'S SYNDROME | Believes a person is an identic-looking impostor. |
| FREGOLI'S SYNDROME | Believes the same person exists in multiple desguises |
| INTERMETAMORPHOSIS | Belief that individuals swapped IDs |
| COTARD'S DELUSION | Patient believes he is dead or dying |
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