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Stroke NBCOT
| 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. |