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| abulia | a lack of will
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| akinesia | loss or impairment of the power of voluntary movement
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| perseveration | getting stuck in persistent repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions
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| mutism | the inability or unwillingness to speak
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| hyposexuality | especially low level of sexual interest
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| explosive emotional liability | inability to control emotional expressions by constantly changing emotion
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| environmental dependency | the need for environmental cues to achieve goals
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| impersistence | the inability to stay on one task
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| confabulation | the characteristic of telling untrue stories (intentional or not)
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| mania | mood disorder marked by hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
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| hypersexuality | excessive sex drive
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| bradykinesia | slowed movements
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| hypokinesia | reduced/less movement
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| akinesia | basically no movement
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| rigidity | stiff/tight muscles that resist passive movement to a limb
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| dystonia | increased tone. abnormal, sustained involuntary muscle contractions
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| chorea | quick, involuntary, dance-like movements of hands/feet
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| athetosis | slow twisting movements of hands/feet
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| ballismus (hemisballismus) | quick, involuntary flinging of a limb (one sided)
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| tics | involuntary, non-rhythmic, repetitive motor or vocal behaviors
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| myoclonus | sudden involuntary muscle jerks
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| tremor | unintentional rhythmic shaking movements often in hands or voice (essential, intention, action, resting)
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| fasciciulations | muscle twitches
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| ataxia | uncoordinated motor movement, loss of motor control during voluntary movements
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| gait disorder | hemiplegia, parkinson's, ataxic, scissor
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| aphasia | "language troubles" fluent, non-fluent, conduction
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| apraxia | motor sequencing, sending instructions to produce correct speech but get mixed/messed up
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| dysarthria | nerves or muscle deficit
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| auditory processing disorder | can hear but cannot understand
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| proprioception | can sense where body is without seeing it
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| astereognosis | can't touch something with eyes closed and know what it is
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| alexia | difficulty/inability to read
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| acalculia | difficulty/inability to do math
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| phonological dyslexia | hard time sounding out unknown or fake words
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| anton's syndrome | fully blind but deny it
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| simultanagnosia | can't put parts of visual scene together in a comprehensive whole
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| prosopagnosia | face blindness
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| palinopsia | "ghost images" something appears in the same spot after it moves or see something that isn't there
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| visual agnosia | can see but cannot recognize objects
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| parasthesia | tingling, prickling, or burning sensation
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| anesthesia | numbness or loss of feeling
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| hypertonia | too much tone, rigidity
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| hypotonia | not enough or reduced tone, floppy
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| syncope | fainting, lose consciousness
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| presyncope | dizzy, start to black out
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| seizures | abnormal electrical activity in the brain. large spectrum of severity and causes
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| afferent | sensory signals PNS->CNS ascending
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| efferent | motor signals CNS->PNS descending
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| ganglion | group of cell bodies outside the CNS, gray matter PNS
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| nuclei | group of cell bodies inside the CNS
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| nerve | bundle of nerve fibers/axons outside the CNS, in the PNS
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| tract | bundle of nerve fibers/axons inside the CNS
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| GSE | to skeletal muscles. voluntary control
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| GVE | to smooth muscle, guts. involuntary control
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| GSA | from skin
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| GVA | from guts
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| S | somatic
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| V | visceral
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| E | efferent
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| A | afferent
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| dysmetria | under/overshooting touching a mark
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| dysdiachokinesia | inability to perform rapid, alternating movement with hand or mouth
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| nystagmus | fast, involuntary eye movement
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| ataxic dysarthria | slurred speech
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| anosmia | inability to smell
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| papillary light reflex | pupils adjusting to light levels
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| papilledema | optic disc swelling
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| ptosis | droopy eyelid
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| diplopia | double vision
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| jaw-jerk reflex | excessive movement of jaw when hit (positive is bad)
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| plantar reflex | toe flexing (positive bad when older)
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| patellar reflex | knee swing (positive is good)
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| plegia | paralysis
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| paresis | weakness
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| dysesthesia | abnormal sense of touch/pain
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| hydrocephalus | excess fluid in the brain
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| hypertension | high blood pressure
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| hyperosmolality | hyper concentration in blood. blood brain barrier breaks to diffuse
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| disfluencies | repetition, prolongations, stopping, blocking
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| BA 4 | primary motor cortex
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| BA 6 | supplementary motor cortex
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| BA 44+45 | broca's area
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| BA 41+42 | primary auditory area
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| declarative memory | long-term and episodic memory
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| anomia | word finding difficulties
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| lexical agraphia | can't visualize words in mind, hard time spelling
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| pure word deafness | can hear but can't understand speech, can identify non-speech sounds
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