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Stroke NBCOT
Question | Answer |
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Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA) | AKA stroke; applies to clinical syndromes that accompany ischemic or hemorrhagic lesions. |
Cerebral insufficiency | Due to transient disturbances of blood flow (i.e. TIA) |
Cerebral infarction | Due to either embolism or thrombosis of the intra or extracranial arteries. |
Cerebral hemorrhage | Bleed secondary to hypertension or aneurysm. |
Cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) | Abnormal, tangled collections of dilated blood vessels that result from congenitally malformed vascular structures. |
Left Hemisphere | Movement of the right side of body; processing of sensory information from right side of body; visual reception from right field. |
Left Hemisphere cont. 1 | Visual verbal processing |
Left Hemisphere cont. 2 | Bilateral motor praxis |
Left Hemisphere cont. 3 | Verbal memory |
Left Hemisphere cont. 4 | Bilateral auditory reception |
Left Hemisphere cont. 5 | Speech |
Left Hemisphere cont. 6 | Processing of verbal auditory information |
Right Hemisphere | Movement of left side of body; processing of sensory information from left side of body; visual reception from left field |
Right Hemisphere cont. 1 | Visual spatial processing |
Right Hemisphere cont. 2 | Left motor praxis |
Right Hemisphere cont. 3 | Nonverbal memory |
Right Hemisphere cont. 4 | Attention to incoming stimuli |
Right Hemisphere cont. 5 | Emotion |
Right Hemisphere cont. 6 | Processing of nonverbal auditory information |
Right Hemisphere cont. 7 | Interpretation of abstract information and tonal inflections. |