Acquired Disorders Crossword
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Fill in the Blanks with the term that matches the description
Topics of this game:
- When a blood clot blocks blood supply from part of the brain
- When a blood vessel in the brain bursts
- Face, Arm, Speech, Time
- This imaging shows a change in tissue density
- "clot busting medication"
- a language processing problem resulting from a stroke
- type of aphasia that has nonfluent output and often telegraphic
- type of aphasia that usually results from a posterior lesion
- naming or word finding problems
- laughing and crying inappropriately
- pressure inside the skull
- involves shaving the portion of the head, exposing the dura, removal of the clot, repairing the artery and irrigation
- scale that looks at eye opening, verbal and motor response
- swelling
- collection of blood
- when an object decreases in speed and the head is forced to an abrupt stop
- when an object increases its rate of speed and the head is propelled by some external force
- What is the initial injury on the brain called?
- the secondary impact injury
- localized damage that tends to result from penetrating injuries
- denial or lack of awareness of deficits
- allows you to select and prioritize relevant information (internal and external)
- difficulty recognizing familiar faces despite preserved object recognition
- failure to attend and perceive items on the contra-lateral side
- an assessment for non-dominant hemisphere disorder patients
- proteins between nerve cells in the brain
- brain disease characterized by neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques
- individual's with Alzheimer's Disease have lower levels of
- type of dementia that involves hallucinations and Parkisonian like symptoms
- the four D's of cognitive impairment include delirium, drugs, dementia and...
- space between the vocal folds that leads to the trachea
- the food or liquid that one chews/manipulates and swallows
- another word for chewing
- contractions of the esophagus to send the bolus towards the stomach
- results when the lower esophageal sphincter doesn't close
- swallowing disorder that occurs as a result of a neurological or structural problem
- a consistency like applesauce or pudding
- a diet like a fruit cocktail
- most common type of instrumental assessment for dysphagia
- food mixes with this in your mouth to form a cohesive ball
- we tend to use this to measure cognition
- type of memory that recalls events in time
- the term for what you know about your memory
- the process of detecting features and patterns in stimuli
- the construction of an internal representation of an event
- when information is transferred from long-term memory to consciousness for use
- term for considering evidence, making inferences, and drawing conclusions
- transferring information into long-term memory
- a scale for describing the stages of dementia
- medical scans that look at tissue metabolism
