Acceleration injury

Acceleration injury is Brain injury caused when the moving head strikes a stationary surface, or the stationary head is struck by a moving object in a way that causes the head to move quickly from its resting position. Linear acceleration injury is caused by forces...

Activity limitation

Activity limitation is the effect of an impairment on a person’s access to activities of daily life. (See also Impairment, Disability, Handicap.) Reference: Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders (Eighth Edition) – Robert H. Brookshire [Book Pg. No....

Afferent neurons

Afferent neurons carry information from sensory receptors of the skin and other organs to the central nervous system (i.e., brain and spinal cord). Reference: Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders (Eighth Edition) – Robert H. Brookshire [Book Pg....

Agnosia

Agnosia Inability to recognize stimuli in a sensory modality in spite of intact sensation in the modality. Several varieties of agnosia have been described in the literature, including auditory agnosia, visual agnosia, tactile agnosia, and combinations such as...

Agrammatism

Agrammatism, speech in which content words (mainly nouns, verbs, adjectives) are present, but most function words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions) are missing. A common characteristic of the speech of adults with Broca’s aphasia. Reference: Introduction to...