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AGITATION
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Being uncontrollably restless, upset or overly excited by things going on inside of
you or around you.
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AROUSAL
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The change from a state of sleep to one of being awake.
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ASPIRATION
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When food or liquid goes into the lungs instead of the stomach.
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APHASIA
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The inability to find or understand words or language.
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APRAXIA
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The inability or slowed ability to get a message from the brain to the muscle.
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ATAXIA
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Loss of ability to coordinate movement.
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ATTENTION
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The ability to focus your mind on a given activity.
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AWARENESS
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Understanding the problems you are having because of the stroke.
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COGNITION
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Thinking or mental activity.
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CONFABULATION
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Making something up that is not true, often to compensate for not
remembering.
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DISTRACTIBILITY
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The inability to hold attention on an activity.
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DYSARTHRIA
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Speech that does not sound normal or is hard to understand due to a weakness of
the muscles of the lips, mouth or tongue.
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DYSPHAGIA
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Difficulty with chewing or swallowing food or liquid.
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HEMIANOPSIA/
FIELD CUT
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Inability to see to one side or tunnel-like vision.
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HEMIPARESIS
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Weakness on one side of the body.
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HEMIPLEGIA
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Paralysis on one side of the body.
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IMPULSIVENESS
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Doing or saying something too quickly, often leading to errors and difficulties.
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INSIGHT/
JUDGMENT
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The ability to know the dangers of certain activities and to make the right
decisions.
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INITIATION
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The ability to begin an activity.
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LABILITY/LABILE
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The inability to control one’s emotions. More easily laughs or cries, for example.
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MEMORY
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Remembering and learning new things. This includes remembering what you do,
remembering what others say to you and remembering what you see and read.
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NEGLECT
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The inability to pay attention to one side of the body, due to lack of sensation or field
cut, for example.
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ORGANIZATION
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The ability to arrange your thoughts to make them sound sensible and orderly.
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ORIENTATION
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A sense of what is going on around you. This includes knowing the day, date,
month and year; knowing things about yourself; knowing where you are and how to get around;
and knowing what happened to you.
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PERSEVERATION
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The inability to turn your attention from one thought to another. Repeating
things or activities.
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PRAGMATICS
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The behaviors behind what you say or communicate, such as eye contact, gestures
and facial expression.
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PROBLEM SOLVING
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The ability to recognize when there is a problem and decide the best ways
to correct it.
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PROPRIOCEPTION
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The ability to tell where the body or limbs are in space.
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SENSATION
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Ability to feel pressure, light touch, sharp, and hot or cold.
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T.I.A.
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Transient Ischemic Attack; “mini stroke” symptoms, which usually go away in minutes to
hours, are a precursor to stroke.
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TONE
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Abnormal resistance to the movement of the involved arm, leg or both.
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