Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 101 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5084-8776-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS) is a condition that follows from lesions (damage) to the cerebellum of the brain. This syndrome, described by Dr. Jeremy Schmahmann and his colleagues refers to a constellation of deficits in the cognitive domains of executive function, spatial cognition, language, and affect resulting from damage to the cerebellum. Impairments of executive function include problems with planning, set-shifting, abstract reasoning, verbal fluency, and working memory, and there is often perseveration, distractibility and inattention. Language problems include dysprosodia, agrammatism and mild anomia. Deficits in spatial cognition produce visual–spatial disorganization and impaired visual–spatial memory. Personality changes manifest as blunting of affect or disinhibited and inappropriate behavior. These cognitive impairments result in an overall lowering of intellectual function. CCAS challenges the traditional...
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