Test Your Knowledge of Terms Describing Limitations of Dementia Patients

In the list below, match the term on the left with the description on the right.  The answers are at the bottom of the page.  I would be interested to know how you did. Please comment.

Aphasia	Number problems
Apraxia	Writing disorders
Anomia	Body image disorders
Alexia	Movement disorders
Agraphia	Impairment of language
Visual Agnosia	Inability to recognize familiar people
Spacial Agnosia	Inability to recognize writing and pictoral material as a whole_only parts
Simultanngagnosia	Difficulty finding words
Prosopagnosia	Inability to find one’s way around familiar place
Anosognosia	Inability to name or use an object without touching it
Acalcula	Reading difficulties

Answers:

1. e
2. d
3. h
4. k
5. b
6. j
7. i
8. g
9. f
10. c
11. a 

 

How did you do? 

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