Cognitive Domains
Ability to filter background noise and focus.
Selective Attention
Dementia related to cerebrovascular disease or circulatory disturbances
Vascular Dementia
Auto-immune disease that attacks the myelin sheath around nerve fibers of the central nervous system
Multiple Sclerosis
Falls
Leading cause of TBI
A stroke in this hemisphere causes RHD
Right Hemisphere
Assessed by repeating strings of numbers of various lengths.
Working Memory
Self-reported issues with memory that are confirmed by a family member, measurable changes in memory but no difficulties with daily living activities.
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Disease affecting the neurons in the substantia nigra that produce dopamine
Parkinson's Disease
Inconsistent awareness of self or environment
Minimally Conscious State/Unresponsive Wakefulness
The term that refers to a lack of awareness of motor, sensory, communication or cognitive changes that occur following stroke
Anosognosia
Characterized by remembering to do something in the future.
Prospective Memory
The most commonly diagnosed dementia
Alzheimer's Disease
Hereditary disease that causes neurons to gradually break down and die. Characterized by uncontrollable dance-like movements.
Huntington's Disease
The most frequently reported severity of TBI
Mild
Assessment of visual perception using a fruit.
Apples Test
Executive Function
The subtype of primary progressive aphasia that is most similar to Broca's aphasia.
Nonfluent variant of PPA
Disease characterized by deterioration and death of motor neurons; cognitive abilities are typically retained
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
A scale used to determine levels of independence for activities of daily living
Functional Independence Measure
The term used to refer to difficulty processing visual, auditory or tactile information that originates from one side, often the left.
Neglect
Consolidation
Primary Progressive Aphasia results from this type of dementia.
Frontotemporal Dementia
ALS is also referred to as the name of this baseball player
Lou Gehrig
A scale that allows for description and prediction of recovery through various stages.
Ranchos Los Amigos Levels of Cognitive Functioning Scale
The term used to refer to a visual field cut
Hemianopsia