Agraphia - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Certified Stroke Rehabilitation Specialist Questions With Complete Solutions 2024 Types of stroke (Lesson 2) - answerIschemic: 87% -Thrombotic -Embolic -Lacunar Hemorrhagic: 13% -Intracerebral -Subarachnoid Thrombotic Stroke (Ischemic) - answer48% of all strokes -typically occurs during sleep -slow progressive onset of deficits -50% are associated with prior TIA Embolic Stroke (Ischemic) - answer26% of all strokes -typically occurs while awake -sudden, immediate deficits (sometim...

What is agraphia? correct answer: acquired writing impairment What is alexia? correct answer: acquired reading impairment What is pure alexia? correct answer: impairment of reading or spelling with regular verbal language comprehension and production What is alexia with agraphia? correct answer: a reading and writing impairment What is alexia without agraphia? correct answer: reading impairment without a writing impairment Disruption in central language-processing skills can ...

Neurocognitive Disorders (NCDs) - Includes disorders in which a clinically deficit in cognition or memory exists causing a change from a previous level of functioning. Delirium - Is characterized by a disturbance in attention and awareness and change in cognition that develops rapidly over a short period. Dementia - A mental disorder involving functional decline in multiple cognitive areas, including memory along with behavioral and psychological symptoms. Classified based on the areas they...

STROKE- NCLEX QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% ACCURATE REVIEW 2024 A+ The nurse is caring for a patient with a history of transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and moderate carotid stenosis who has undergone a carotid endarterectomy. Which of the following postoperative findings would cause the nurse the most concern? a) Blood pressure (BP): 128/86 mm Hg b) Neck pain: 3/10 (0 to 10 pain scale) c) Mild neck edema d) Difficulty swallowing - ANS-Difficulty swallowing The patient's inability to s...

STROKE- NCLEX EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWER WITH RATIONALE, WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION 2024/2025. The nurse is caring for a patient with a history of transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and moderate carotid stenosis who has undergone a carotid endarterectomy. Which of the following postoperative findings would cause the nurse the most concern? a) Blood pressure (BP): 128/86 mm Hg b) Neck pain: 3/10 (0 to 10 pain scale) c) Mild neck edema d) Difficulty swallowing Difficulty swallo...

USMLE Step 1 High Yield Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Klüver Bucy syndrome - ANSWER-Hyperorality, hypersexuality, disinhibited behavior. Associated with HSV-1 Gerstmann Syndrome - ANSWER-Lesion of the parietal-temporal cortex. Agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia, and left-right disorientation. Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome - ANSWER-Confusion, ophtalmoplegia, ataxia, memory loss (anterograde and retrograde amnesia), confabulation, personality changes. Wernicke problems come in a C...

Agnosia - Inability to recognize objects or have knowledge of the objects through the senses Agraphia - Inability to write Alpha Coma - EEG pattern characterized by alpha frequency activity which is monotonous and widespread and shows no response to stimulation in a comatose patient Amplitude - the voltage of the EEG waveform or waveform complex measured in microvolts Low amplitude - under 20 microvolts Medium amplitude - 20 to 50 microvolts High amplitude - over 50 microvolts ...

CSP Exam Study Guide (Terms based on study guide for Certified Specialist in Psychometry) With Complete Solutions Anhedonia - Answer Inability to experience pleasure Aneurysm - Answer Defiency in wall of an artery (balloons out) Apraxia/dyspraxia - Answer Impairment in ability to carry out voluntary movement Ateriovenous Malformation (AVM) - Answer Congenital collections of abnormal blood vessels. Arteries connect directly to veins Agraphia/dysgraphia - Answer Loss of ability to p...

What areas does the Anterior Cerebral Artery ACA feed? (I.e. lobes and/or structures) - Medial portion of the frontal and parietal lobes (mohawk); corpus callosum What areas does the Posterior Cerebral Artery PCA feed? (I.e. lobes/structures) - Occipital lobe, midbrain, thalamus, and pineal gland. What are the major s/s of MCA stroke? - Contralateral hemiplegia Contralateral Hemianesthesia Arm weaker than leg Face droopy Eye deviation towards side of lesion Contralateral homonymous hem...

How do cholinesterase inhibitors improve cortical function in dementia patients? - By making acetylcholine more available. Characterize psychomotor seizures (AKA partial seizure) - These can occur at any age. Characterized by sudden change in awareness associated with complex distortion of feeling and thinking and partially coordinated motor activity and last longer than absence seizures Are the hormones effected by ICR? - Yes. Hormonal regulation is dependent on normal intracranial regula...