The lack of awareness of one's own deficits and disease
What is anosognosia?
The treatment where the task is to identify objects presented to the left and right of midline and at varying distances from the midline
What is contiguous stimuli?
The most widely used definition of dementia in the US
What is the DSM-IV? (Impaired short-term memory; impaired long-term memory; and one of the following: -impaired abstract thinking, -personality change, -impaired judgment, -impaired constructional abilities, -impaired language, -impaired visual recognition)
What is the clinician and caregiver
The assessment that allows professionals to evaluate patients with early and mild stages of dementia
What is the ABCD (Arizona Battery for Communication; Disorders with Dementia)?
An underutilization of the contralesional extremities in the absence of a primary motor deficit
What is motor neglect?
The treatment that targets ___ where you practice the production of emphatic stress
What is prosody?
The three cortical dementias
Alzheimer's, Pick's, and Primary Progressive Aphasia
The management issues for early dementia
What is anxiety, depression, behavior change, denial, and aggression?
The assessment that covers pragmatics, discourse, humor, inference, metaphor interpretation, and prosody?
What is RHLB (Right Hemisphere Language Battery)?
The type of neglect that occurs in various sectors of space and no pathways are impaired
What is visual neglect
The treatment where your goal is to stimulate activation of alternate meanings asking the patient to group 2 of 3 words
What is word associations?
The type of dementia caused by multiple infarcts
The stage of dementia that neologisms appear
What is the middle stages of dementia
The comprehensive assessment for TBI with subtests of perception, orientation, organization, memory, and problem solving.
What is the SCATBI (Scales of Cognitive Ability for Traumatic Brain Injury)?
The two areas of language that RHD most commonly affects
What is prosody and discourse (and some semantic processing)?
The treatment that targets ___ where the goal is to strengthen macrostructure and making thematic inferences. You present stories or picture scenes for interpretation
What is discourse?
The dementia that is characterized with disturbances in movement
What is Parkingson's Disease
The tests that can differentiate adults with mild dementia from healthy elderly
What is delayed storytelling, mental status (oritentation), pantomime expression, Peabody Picture Vocab Test?
The assessment that stimulates real world tasks for people with TBI?
What is the FAVRES (Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning and Executive Strategies)?
The types of ways RHD is tested non-verbally
What is line bisection, cancellation, drawing, writing, and reading?
The treatment where you identify objects where half is in the area of neglected space and the other half is in the non-neglected space
What is meaningful stimuli?
The three microscopic changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer's Disease
What is 1) Neurofibrillary tangles, 2) Neuritic plaques, and 3) granulovavuolar degeneration
The typical language presentation with late stage dementia
The six areas of memory that the RBMT assess
Verbal memory, visual memory, spatial memory, prospective memory, orientation, and new learning