Sunday, February 12, 2012

Clearing Up Some Confusing Terms

What are amnesia, aphasia, anomia, alexia, agraphia, acalculia, (relatively commonly used terms) and agnosia, apraxia, anosagnosia, anosadiaphoria (relatively uncommonly used terms)?  Wow, I have been doing behavioral neurology for over 25 years and I know I missed a few of the “a&rdq...
9/16/08 3:49am

my mother has had "alzheimers" for the last 15 years. she murmers and mumbles sounds which make no sense. I was feeding her chocolate pudding the other day..and i kept putting the pudding to her mouth and saying..you want more? say yes..I repeated this over and over...and she said yesss. what does this mean? Can you have aphasia and respond as she did?

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