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Lobes
Name that evaluation tool
Memory
Glossary
100
Part of the brain which regulates muscle tone, maintains posture and balance
What is the cerebellum?
100
The lobe of the brain that deals with cognitive thought processes (i.e. thinking, knowing, learning, judging).
What is the frontal lobe?
100
Assesses eye opening, motor response and verbal response.
What is Glascow Coma Score?
100
Memory which can be evaluated by asking the patient to repeat three unrelated words back to you after five minutes has past.
What is immediate memory?
100
Loss of muscle control during voluntary movements.
What is ataxia?
200
Part of the brain responsible for thought & reason functions, emotion and memory.
What is the cerebrum?
200
Lobe of the brain taht receives and analyzes visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
200
Considered to be the gold standard in assessing a patient with a stroke.
What is the NIH Stroke Scale?
200
Memory which asks the patient about the items they consumed at breakfast?
What is short-term memory?
200
A stroke of unknown origin (~30-40% of ischemic strokes).
What is a cryptogenic stroke?
300
Part of the brain responsible for controlling breathing and cardiovascular function.
What is brainstem?
300
Lobe of the brain responsible for hearing.
What is the temporal lobe?
300
The tool which asks a patient to smile, hold out their arms, speak a sentence and evaluating time since last known well.
What is F.A.S.T.?
300
Memory which asks patients about the birthdate of a child.
What is long-term memory?
300
A disorder of speech--imperfect articulation of speech sounds or changes in voice pitch or quality.
What is dysarthria?
400
Part of the brain responsible for artistic, imaginative activities, facial perception and music.
What is the right hemisphere (of the cerebrum)?
400
Lobe of the brain responsible for sense of touch and object manipulation.
Waht is the parietal lobe?
400
Testing which involves: reading a Snellen chart, tasting sweet, sour and bitter tastes, shrugging shoulders, symmetery of tongue, for example.
What is testing the cranial nerves?
400
Memory which asks about patients the wedding date.
What is long-term memory?
400
Inability to communicate spontaneously or to translate thoughts or ideas into meaningful words.
What is expressive aphasia?
500
Part of the brain that controls speech, academic and analytical processes.
What is the left hemisphere (of the cerebrum)?
500
Lobe in the barin that is responsible for intelligence and personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
500
The test which involves bringing a small beam of light in from the outer canthus of one eye.
What is assesing pupilary response?
500
Memory which asks about a recent holiday or news story.
What is short-term memory?
500
The portion of tissue which surrounds the dense core of irreversibly damaged cells, but is capable of recovery.
What is the pneumbra?
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