Brain Anatomy & Function
This motor cranial nerve assists the Vagus Nerve (CN X) in the movement of the larynx, pharynx, and velum.
What is the Accessory Nerve (CN XI)?
This behavior involves the production of swear words or greetings in response to emotional stimuli; it is often preserved even when volitional speech is lost
What is Automatic Language?
This minimally responsive state is characterized by a lack of consciousness that lasts for a duration greater than four weeks.
What is a Persistent Vegetative State?
This cognitive ability refers to seeing things from another person's point of view, a skill that is often targeted in social discourse therapy for RHD.
What is Theory of Mind?
This clinical phenomenon, common in middle-to-late stage dementia, refers to a patient's symptoms becoming significantly worse as the sun sets.
What is Sundowners?
In the architectural structure of a neuron, this term refers to the main cell body.
What is the Soma?
The formal classification of aphasia syndromes is determined by assessing differences in these three specific language abilities.
What are Expressive, Receptive, and Repetition?
To calculate a score on the Glasgow Coma Scale, a clinician must evaluate these three specific areas of response.
What are Eye Opening, Verbal Response, and Motor Response?
This specific clinical task, where a patient identifies the color of a word rather than the word itself, is used to treat selective attention deficits.
What is Stroop Task?
Unlike the slow onset of dementia, this condition is a sudden disturbance in consciousness that fluctuates throughout the day and is usually the result of a general medical condition.
What is Delirium?
This specialized tissue located within the brain's ventricles is responsible for the production of cerebrospinal fluid
What is Choroid Plexus?
In this nonfluent aphasia, the arcuate fasciculus is spared, allowing the patient to retain a surprisingly intact ability to repeat despite other verbal deficits.
What is Transcortical Motor?
This restorative memory approach involves presenting information for recall over increasingly greater intervals of time to rehabilitate lost abilities.
What is Spaced Retrieval?
This cognitive deficit involves an impaired ability to correctly interpret the overall meaning of details or arrive at the "big picture".
What is inferencing?
This specific type of neuropathology in dementia can be associated with symptoms that are either cortical or subcortical in nature.
What is Lewy Body pathology?
This deep groove on the lateral surface of the brain serves as a major landmark, dividing the frontal and parietal lobes from the temporal lobe
What is Lateral Sulcus?
This term describes an acquired impairment specifically in the ability to read.
What is Alexia?
This secondary mechanism of damage involves the swelling of brain tissue following trauma, which can lead to dangerous levels of intracranial pressure.
What is Cerebral Edema?
This specific condition involves the diminished use of a limb despite the fact that the limb is motorically intact.
What is Motor Neglect?
While memory is a primary concern, this specific linguistic difficulty is one of the most common early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
What is Word Finding?
This sensory cranial nerve (CN II) is primarily responsible for the function of vision
What is Optic Nerve (II)?
This specific standardized assessment is the most commonly used tool for testing aphasia in clinical practice.
What is the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R)?
On the Rancho Los Amigos Scale, a patient at Level IV is described as being in this state, characterized by being very confused, overreacting, and having a very short attention span.
What is Confused-Agitated?
This psychiatric delusion is the belief that a familiar person is able to take on the guise of different people, often accompanied by paranoia.
What is Fregoli Delusion?
A subcortical dementia characterized by multiple infarcts often the result of small recurrent strokes.
What is Lacunar State?