Neuroanatomy & RHD
Damage to this hemisphere typically results in deficits in prosody, "big picture" processing, and social pragmatics.
What is the Right Hemisphere?
Gold standard scale for tracking cognitive recovery levels in TBI (I to X).
What is the Ranchos Los Amigos Scale?
What is Alzheimer's disease?
AD
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Basic tasks like dressing, eating, and bathing.
What are ADLs?
What is anosognosia?
Memory type involved in remembering to perform a planned action in the future.
What is prospective memory?
PPA variant characterized by loss of word meaning and "empty" speech.
What is semantic variant PPA?
ADL
What are activities of daily living?
This 3-letter acronym refers to a progressive form of aphasia that isn't caused by a stroke, but by neurodegeneration.
What is PPA?
This "little brain" located at the back of the skull is responsible for coordinating voluntary movements and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Term referring to "thinking about thinking" and is crucial for self-monitoring.
What is metacognition?
Cause of dementia presenting with early significant personality and social conduction changes.
What is frontotemporal degeneration?
IADL
What are independent activities of daily living?
Complex tasks like managing finances, medications, and transportation.
What are IADLs?
Specific type of neglect involving failure to attend to the left side of space, despite intact visual fields.
What is Left Visual Neglect?
Injury mechanism where the brain bounces back and forth inside the skull.
What is coup-contrecoup?
PPA variant often called the "non-fluent" type.
What is logopenic (or non-fluent/agrammatic) PPA?
What is Glasgow Coma Scale?
3-letter acronym representing the medical term for a stroke.
What is a CVA?
Term that captures the core of RH [and other disorder] communication deficits that interfere with the ability to convey and interpret intended meaning
What is apragmatism?
What DAI stands for in TBI pathology.
Life expectancy timeline for someone who qualifies for hospice care.
What is ~6 months?
A&O x4
What is oriented to person, place, time, and situation?
This 4-letter acronym is a screening tool used to quickly assess cognitive impairment, often involving the patient drawing a clock.
What is the MoCA?