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PTA Neuromuscular
Neuromuscular Terms from SkillBuilder Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agnosia | The inability to interpret information |
| Agraphesthesia | The inability to recognize symbols, letters, or numbers traced on the skin |
| Aphasia | The inability to communicate or comprehend due to damage to specific areas of the brain |
| Apraxia | The inability to perform purposeful learned movements or activities even though there is no sensory or motor impairment that would hinder completion of the task. |
| Body Schema | Having an understanding of the body as a whole and the relationship of its parts to the whole. |
| Constructional Apraxia | The inability to reproduce geometric figures and designs. A person is often unable to visually analyze how to perform a task. |
| Decerebrate Rigidity | A characteristic of corticospinal lesion at the level of the brainstem that results in extension of the trunk and all extremities |
| Decorticate rigidity | A characteristic of a corticospinal lesion at the level of the diencephalon where the trunk and LE are positioned in extension and the UE are in flexion |
| Diplopia | Double vision |
| Dysarthria | Slurred and impaired speech due to a motor deficit of the tongue or other muscles essential for speech. |
| Dysphagia | The inability to properly swallow |
| Emotional liability | Characteristic of a Right hemisphere infarct where there is an inability to control emotions and outburts of laughing or crying that are inconsistent with the situation. |
| Fluent aphasia | Characteristic of receptive aphasia where speech produces funcitonal output regarding articulation but lacks content and is typically dysprosodic using neologistic jargon. |
| Hemiparesis | Condition of weakness on one side of the body |
| Hemiplegia | condition of paralysis on one side of the body |
| Homonymous hemianopsia | The loss of the R or L half of the field of vision in both eyes |
| Ideational apraxia | the inability to formulate an initial motor plan and sequence tasks where the proprioceptive input necessary for movement is impaired. |
| Ideomotor apraxia | Condition hwere a person plans a movement or task, but cannot volitionally perform it. Automatic movement may occur, however, a person cannot impose additional movement on command. |
| Non-fluent aphasia | Characteristic of expressive aphasia where speech is non-functional, effortful, and contians paraphasias. Writing is also impaired. |
| Nystagmus | Abnormal eye movement that is nonvolitional, rhythmic oscillation of the eyes. The speed of movement is typically faster in one direction and its origin is congenital or aquired. |
| Perseveration | The state of repeatedly performing the same segment of a task or repeatedly saying the word/phrase without purpose. |
| Synergy | Mass movement patterns that are primitive in nature and coupled with spasticity due to brain damage. |
| Unilateral neglect | The inability to interpret stimuli and events on the contralateral side of a hemispheric lesion. Left-sided neglect is most common with a lesion to the right inferior parietal or superior temporal lobes. |
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