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Kaplan and saddock ch 1. TestQuestions and Correct Answers Graded
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prosopagnosia - Answer: - inability to recognize faces
appereceptive visual agnosia - Answer: inability to draw or identify items using visual cues
associative visual agnosia - Answer: - inability to name or use object despite the ability to draw then
color agnosia - Answer: - is the inability to name a color despite being able to match it
color anomia - Answer: - inability to name a color despite being able to point to it.
Central achromatopsia - Answer: - complete inability to perceive color
Anton's syndrome - Answer: Failure to acknowledge blindness (fibers self-assessment- bilat occipital
lesion)
Balint's syndrome - Answer: optic ataxia plus
oculomotor apraxia - inability to direct gaze rapidly
simultanagnosia -inability integrate visual scene into whole
Gerstmann's syndrome - Answer: includes: agraphia, calculation difficulties (Acalculia), R/L
disorientation, and FINGER agnosia
Agnosia i - Answer: is the inability to process sensory information. Often there is a loss of ability to
recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is
there any significant memory loss.
, word deafness - Answer: - intact hearing, inability to recognize speech left parietal cortex
auditory sound agnosia - Answer: b. - inability to recognize nonverbal sounds (horn) right hemi
caudate nucleus - Answer: Part of basal ganglia - modulation of motor acts, does only actions that are
goal oriented, decreased function: OCD, Torrents; excess function: bradykinesia; shrinks in Huntington,
R/o SI may affect cognition
substantia nigra - Answer: An area of the midbrain that is involved in motor control and contains a large
concentration of dopamine-producing neurons; sends signals to the basal ganglia, a mass of nerve fibres
that helps to initiate and control patterns of movement. Parkinsonism results its deterioration
Cerebellum - Answer: A large structure of the hindbrain that controls fine motor skills.; motor
movement coordination, balance, equilibrium and muscle tone - "homunculi" body map - active even
when thinking about moving - if nfg movement course tremor
Limb-kinetic apraxia - Answer: - inability to use the contra lateral hand; R/T motor cortex
ideomotor apraxia - Answer: - inability to perform an isolated motor movement on command; R/T
motor cortex
ideational apraxia - Answer: - can do individual actions but not the series ALZ; R/T motor cortex
hypothalamus - Answer: regulates autonomic system, basic drive, appetite, sex, rage
Broca's aphasia - Answer: - loss of fluent speech - is a type of aphasia characterized by partial loss of the
ability to produce language
b. Wernicke's aphasia - Answer: comprehension - receptive aphasia,
developmental dyslexia - Answer: -unexpected diff w learning
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