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Published in Ibrahim Natalwala, Ammar Natalwala, E Glucksman, MCQs in Neurology and Neurosurgery for Medical Students, 2022
Ibrahim Natalwala, Ammar Natalwala, E Glucksman
ii – This woman has dysnomia: an inability to name objects such as the pen despite all other functioning being normal. This is a tricky language disorder to determine because patients may hide their inability; therefore, a Mini-Mental State Examination is a useful tool in assessing this function.
Deficient Phonological Processing in Disabled Readers Implicates Processing Deficits Beyond the Phonological Module
Published in Kees P. van den Bos, Linda S. Siegel, Dirk J. Bakker, David L. Share, Current Directions in Dyslexia Research, 2020
In sum, it seems that poor readers have a specific difficulty retrieving the names of items in their receptive vocabularies. This occurs regardless of the modality of presentation (Snowling et al., 1988). The predictive significance of this deficit suggests that dysnomia is a candidate for causal status.
Assessment of Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Other Forms of Dementia
Published in Gwen Yeo, Linda A. Gerdner, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Ethnicity and the Dementias, 2018
J. Wesson Ashford, Frederick A. Schmitt, Carr J. Smith, Vinod Kumar, Nusha Askari
A number of different tests can be employed using a detailed battery of tests to discriminate between normal function, AD, and other dementias (Weintraub, Wicklund, & Salmon, 2012). The Boston Naming Test can be used to identify the dysnomia associated with AD. To test visual spatial functions more completely, clock drawing and drawing a range of objects, such as a circle, a diamond, intersecting rectangles, and a cube, are also useful, though the critical issue for mild AD patients is whether they can draw these shapes from memory (Ellendt et al., 2017) or recognize complex visual images (Ashford, Gere, & Bayley, 2011).
Central deafness: a review of past and current perspectives
Published in International Journal of Audiology, 2019
Frank E. Musiek, Gail D. Chermak, Barbara Cone
This patient in his early 20s suffered two cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs). The first CVA involved the right temporal and parietal lobes and resulted in left arm and left leg paresis, but no other apparent problems at that time. The second CVA resulted in complete absence of hearing (i.e. the patient could not hear any environmental or speech stimuli and had no response to standard pure tone testing at the maximum power output of the audiometer), dysnomia and dysgraphia. All speech and writing problems cleared within a few days. The patient could read, do calculations and understand gestures and his memory was adequate. Recovery of speech perception, while incomplete, was considerably later than recovery for environmental stimuli (Musiek, Baran, and Pinheiro 1994).