EPPP -- Those pesky "A" words
Terms
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- Akathisia
- Motor restlessness characterized by muscular quivering and the inability to sit still, often a result of chronic ingestion of neuroleptic drugs.
- Aphasia
- Partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from brain damage due to injury or disease
- Apraxia
- A disorder of voluntary movement consisting of the partial or complete inability to execute purposeful movements without the impairment of muscular power and coordination
- Agnosia
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Loss of the ability to interpret sensory stimuli, such as sounds or images
(can't recognize/name familiar things) - Athetosis
- A constant succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of flexion, extension, pronation, and supination of fingers and hands, and sometimes of toes and feet
- Anomia
- Aphasia that is characterized by the impaired ability to recall the names of persons and things (also called nominal aphasia)
- Acalculia
- A form of aphasia characterized by the inability to perform mathematical calculations
- Ataxia
- Loss of the ability to coordinate muscular movement
- Alogia
- The inability to speak because of mental deficiency, mental confusion, or aphasia (i.e., poverty of thought and speech)
- Avolition
- A general lack of desire, motivation, and persistence. Commonly seen in patients with schizophrenia -- they will not start or complete any major tasks
- Anhedonia
- Absence of pleasure from the performance of acts that would normally be pleasurable
- Agraphia
- A form of aphasia characterized by loss of the ability to write
- Alexia
- Loss of the ability to comprehend the meaning of written or printed words and sentences, usually caused by brain lesions