Glossary of Neuropsychology

* Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) : Disorder characterized in the cerebral blood circulation, frequently with a sudden starts. * Hemorrhagic-CVA: complication caused by the rupture of blood  cerebral vessel. * Ischemic-CVA: Interruption of the flow blood circulation in a region of body or brain that affects the irrigation process,  consecuently, the reduction of oxigen and provocates cells death or necoris.

* Dysarthria : Difficulty articulating sounds and words caused by paralysis or ataxia of the nerve centers that govern the phonatory organs. * Emotional Lability : Affective instability that a person can have, where disproportionate behaviors can occur in their way of manifesting. * Tomography : X-ray exploratory technique that allows to obtain radiological images of a section or plane of an organ

Verbal fluency: Is important for communication, is basically, the ease with which a person can produce words. Work Memory  is a cognitive function with a limited capacity that is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing. Working memory is important for reasoning and the guidance of decision-making and behavior Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is a region of the frontal lobes that is most typically associated with executive functions including working memory and selective attention

Amusia  It is the inability to detect, recognize, or reproduce musical tones, and it is also referred to as tone deafness. Achromatopsia Achromatopsia is a non-progressive and hereditary visual disorder which is characterized by the absence of color vision, decreased vision, light sensitivity, and nystagmus. Patients with achromatopsia are only able to perceive black, white and gray shades colors. Ideomotor apraxia  is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to correctly imitate hand gestures and voluntarily mime tool use. for example pretend to brush one's hair. 

Prosopagnosia:  Prosopagnosia (also known as 'face blindness') refers to a severe deficit in recognizing familiar people from their face. Amnesia: is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage , disease or psychological trauma. Agnosia: Is the inability to process sensory information, is a loss of ability to recognize objects persons,sounds,shapes or smells. 

* Hippocampus: Temporal Lobe structure that constitutes a important part of limbic system and explicit memory system. * Alert: Situation of vigilance or attention. Be in wakefulness. * Codification: Process of prepare and organize information verbal or visual for be accumulate long term and later recuperation

 Phonological: The system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language. The arcuate fasciculus: Is a bundle of axons that forms part of the superior longitudinal  fasciculus, an association fiber tract. The arcuate bidirectionally connects caudal temporal cortex and inferior parietal cortex to locations in the frontal lobe. Aprosexia: Is an abnormal inability to pay attention, characterized by a near-complete indifference to everything.