Vocabulary
Word finding difficulties, or a form of aphasia where an individual is unable to name every day objects.
Anomia
The interruption of blood supply to the brain, caused by a blocked or burst blood vessel; Cuts off the supply of oxygen and nutrients, causing damage to brain tissue.
What is a Stroke?
This part of the brain involves understanding speech, as well as interpretation and storage of auditory and olfactory sensations.
What is the temporal lobe?
The loss of one half of the visual field which results in not being able to see to either the left or right of the field of vision. It can happen in the right half of each eye known as „right homonymous hemianopia‟ or in the left half called „left homonymous hemianopia‟.
What is Hemianopia?
Hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, physical inactivity, obesity, genetics, and smoking
What are common risk factors for a stroke?
Injury to this area of your brain results in receptive dysphasia, where as injury to this area of the brain results in difficulty with speech due to poor control of larynx, pharynx and mouth.
What is Wernicke's area and Broca's area?
Slurred or slow speech due to weak muscles resulting and difficulty controlling them
Dysarthria
This stroke is caused by hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, ischaemic heart, peripheral vasular disease and diabetes.
What is an ischemic stroke?
A map along the cerebral cortex of where sensation each part of the body is processed?
What is sensory homunculus?
Patient is unable to recognize and identify objects, persons, or sounds using one or more of their senses despite otherwise normally functioning senses
What is agnosia?
Like a stroke, this also results from a clot blocking blood flow, however does not last for long. Once the clot passes, the stroke will end.
What is a transient ischaemic attack?
The primary function is to relay motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex. A small structure within the brain located just above the brain stem between the cerebral cortex and the midbrain and has extensive nerve connections to both.
What is the thalamus?
When an individual is unable to demonstrate an action with a specified object to indicate they recognize the object
What is ideational apraxis?
when a blood vessel in the brain bursts.
What is a Hemorrhagic stroke?
The carotid and vertebrobasilar arteries form a circle of communicating arteries at the base of the brain.
What is the circle of Willis?