| Question |
Answer |
| 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. |
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