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Neuro Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apraxia | Difficulty planning and coordinating the movements necessary to execute a task |
| aphasia | disorder caused by damage to the parts of the brain that control language |
| dysarthria | difficulty saying words because of problems with the muscles that help you talk |
| dysphagia | Difficulty with swallowing |
| agraphia | loss in the ability to communicate through writing |
| dysprosody | refers to the loss of normal rhythm or melody of speech |
| preservation | involuntary repetition of motor response or the continuation of a sensation after the adequate external stimulus has ceased. |
| akinetic mutism | tending to neither move or speak |
| astereoagnosia | a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them |
| agraphesthisia | disorientation of the skin's sensation across its space (can't recog a written number/letter traced on one's palm) |
| anosagnosia | disability where one is unaware of his or her disability |
| acalculia | inability or loss of ability to perform arithmetic operations |
| prosopagnosia | face blindness; inability to recognize face |
| alexia | neuro inability to understand written words |
| prosody | musical quality of language |