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CVA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aphasia | neurological language disorder |
| global aphasia | loss of all language ability |
| Broca's aphasia | broken speech slow labored speech with frequent mispronunciations |
| Wernicke's aphasia | receptive aphasia impaired auditory reception speech may be fluent but meaningless or nonsensical |
| Anomic aphasia | difficulty finding words |
| dysarthria | articulation disorder resulting from paralysis of organs of speech |
| spatial relations and positioning | difficulty perceiving distance and object placement |
| spatial neglect | inability to recognize stimuli in a particular area of the environment, generally contralateral side of body |
| body neglect | spatial neglect of own body, contralaterally |
| motor apraxia | difficulty completing planned movements |
| ideational apraxia | difficulty conceptualizing planned, multistep movements |
| figure ground | difficulty differentiating object from its background |
| initiation | difficulty beginning an activity or movement |
| visual agnosia | difficulty recognizing objects |
| subluxation | glenohumeral joint caused by humeral head moving downward from joint |
| MCA and internal carotid | contralateral hemiplegia, anesthesia, homonymous hemianopsia, aphasia, apraxia, unilateral neglect, spatial dysfunction |
| ACA | contralateral hemiplegia, grasp reflex, incontinent, confusion, apathy, mutism |
| PCA | homonymous hemianopsia, thalamic pain, hemisensory loss, alexia |
| vertebrobasilar | pseudobulbar (dysarthria, dysphagia, emotional instability, tetraplegia |