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Vocabulary

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Ataxia   Tremor like movement with delayed initation  
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Adiadochokinesia   "Not moving together" to preform rapid movements  
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Dysmetria   Faulty distance between two points (inability to estimate ROM to reach target)  
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Dyssynergia   Faulty woking together (movement appears jerky)  
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Tremors (2 types)   1. Intentional tremors 2. Resting tremors  
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Dysarthria   Faulty speech  
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Nystagmus   Involuntary control of the eyeballs  
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Choreiform movements   Uncontrolled, irregular, purposeless, quick, and jerky motions (may happen in sleep)  
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Athetoid movements   Slow, worm-like motions (does not happen in sleep)  
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Spasms   Sudden involuntary muscle contractions  
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Ballism   One side of the body  
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Dystonia   Faulty muscle tone or tension  
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Hypotonicity   Flaccidity of muscle, muscles feel soft, no resistance, and cannot hold position  
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Hypertonicity   Spasticity/ increased resistance to passive stretch  
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Hypertonicity (mild, moderate, and severe)   Mild - may feel resistance during PROM (full ROM is attainable) Moderate - constant resistance during PROM (full ROM is attainable) Severe- strong resistance during PROM  
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Parietal Lobe   Responsible for sensory information that had to do with taste, temperature, and touch.  
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Temporal Lobe   Responsible for processing auditory information from the ears  
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Occipital Lobe   Responsible for processing visual information from the eyes  
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Frontal Lobe   Responsible for mental processing  
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Feedback   Provide information about performance  
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Feedforward   Uses sensory information to plan movement  
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Olfactory sensation   Declines with age, decreased sense of smell affects the ability to taste, influences emotional state and evokes memories  
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Hyposmia   Diminished sense of smell  
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Anosmia   Lose of sense of smell (interferes with detection of environmental orders- safety issues)  
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(P) arosmia   Pleasant odors may be distorted  
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Proprioception   Unconscious sense of joint position and motion  
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Graphesthesia   Identification of numbers and letters when they are "written" on the skin  
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Body Scheme   Awareness of body parts, the position of the body and its parts in relation to themselves and the enviroment  
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Asomatognosia   Severe loss of body scheme  
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Praxis   Ability to plan and perform purposeful movement  
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Apraxia   Inability to plan and perform the motor acts needed  
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Ideomotor praxia   Inability to perform an action on command a motor skill  
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Constructional apraxia   Inability to draw, copy, or construct designs  
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Dressing apraxia   Inability to plan and perform a sequence needed to dress  
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Finger agnosia   Naming, Identifying  
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Declarative (or explicit memory) (2)   1. Episodic memory 2. Semantic memory  
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Episodic memory   Personal hx and life experiences  
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Semantic memory   General knowledge shared by a group example: rules of social behavior  
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Procedural memory   Cannot tell, but can perform the action  
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Prospective memory   Ability to remember events that are set to occur in the future  
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Anosognosia   Total inability to recognize deficits "lack of insight/awareness"  
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Acalculia   Inability to perform simple mathematical tasks  
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Alexia   Unable to read  
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Agraphia   Unable to write  
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Diplopia   (Double vision): good to cover one eye to remove that double vision.  
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Figure-Closure   Ability to for ex. see a stop sign and although a portion of it is blocked from a tree, you know it’s a stop sign.  
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Figure-Ground   Ability to distinguish an object from its background  
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Pattern Recognition   Able to distinguish an object from its surroundings  
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Visual Scanning   Able to shift attention from one side to the other looking for box of cereal, then milk, etc.  
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Homonymous Hemianopsia   Loss of the right half, or left half of the visual field in each eye  
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ARMD   Age Related Macular Degeneration  
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Glaucoma   Second leading cause of blindness  
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ARMD   Leading cause of loss of central vision for older adult  
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Cataracts   Result in gradual, painless loss of vision  
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Presbyopia   Far-sightedness associated with aging  
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Hyperopia   Far-sightedness  
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Myopia   Near-sightedness  
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Diabetic retinopathy   Starts with floaters; progresses to blurred vision and visual loss Control of blood sugar slows the progression  
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Visual memory   Create and retain a visual image  
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Oculomotor control   Effective control of eye movements  
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Visual acuity   Visual information is sharp, clear, and accurate  
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Visual perception   Vision and information from other senses are integrated and interpreted by the brain forms a visual image of the environment  
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Hypoalgesia   Diminished pain sensation  
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Analgesia   Complete loss of pain sensation  
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Hyperesthesia   Increased sensitivity  
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Hypoesthesia   Decreased sensation  
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Paresthesia   Abnormal sensation  
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Anesthesia   Complete loss of sensation  
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Ideational apraxia   Inability to comprehend the concept of required movement to do a task  
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Visual Agnosia   Inability to recognize common items that can be see  
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Prosopagnosia   Inability to identify faces  
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Form Discrimination   Ability to differentiate between a pen and a highlighter  
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Depth Perception   When they are going down the stairs  
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Astereognosis   Inability to identify an object without looking  
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Transfer of Learning Approach   Generalization “Brain Exercises”  
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Chunking   Sorting objects such as clothing, food, and able to divide objects by group  
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Recognition   Identification of something from the past  
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Sustained Attention   Able to focus attention on a task  
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Alternating Attention   Able to alternate between 2 or more tasks  
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Divided Attention   Able to attend to more than one task simultaneously  
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Selective Attention   Able to focus under distracting circumstances  
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Working Memory   Actively using information with the intention of retaining it  
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Visual Field Loss   Loss of any portion of four quarters  
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Ideational Apraxia   Inability to comprehend the concept of required movement to do a task  
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NDT   Neurodevelopment treatment  
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CIT   Constraint-induced movement therapy  
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Rebound phenomenon of Holmes   "to bounce or sing back"  
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Stereognosis   Identification of an object without vision  
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Body scheme   Aware of body parts  
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Asomatognosia   Severe loss of body scheme  
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Praxis   Ability to plan and perform purposeful movements  
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Apraxia   Inability to plan and perform purposeful movements  
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Anosognosia   Total inability to recognize deficits  
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Dysphagia   Difficulty swallowing  
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Broca aphasia   Expressive aphasia  
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Wernicke aphasia   Receptive aphasia  
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Global aphasia   loss of receptive and expressive  
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Right-side responsible for?   Language, time concepts, and analytic thinking  
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Left-side responsible for?   Visual perceptual function and perception as a whole  
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Brainstem stroke   Life threatening controls breathing, heart rate, BP  
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Two types of strokes?   Brainstem and a Cerebellum stroke  
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Hemiplegia   One-side paralysis  
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Hemiparesis   One-side weakness  
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Transient ischemic attack (TIA)   Incomplete stroke with symptoms lasting a few minutes to 24 hours  
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Thrombus   Bloot clot causing blockage  
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Embolus   Traveling blood clot  
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DVT   Deep vein thrombosis  
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Rood approach   Facilitatory and Inhibitory Techniques  
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CHI   Close head injury  
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DAI   Caused by stretching and shearing forces  
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Rigidity   Increased muscle in the agonist and antagonist  
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