Skills targeted towards the restoration of impaired skills.

People's daily self care activities.

Skills focused on adapting to new environment.

An individual's inability to process sensory information.

An antiviral and antiparkinsonian drug.

A ballooning and the weakened area in an artery.

A condition in which a specially-abled person seems indifferent to the existence of his handicap.

Also known as 'lack of insight'; an individual's inability to understand and perceive his or her illness.

Drugs, majorly used for the treatment of depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders and neuropathic pain.

A class of drugs that are used to treat hypertension.

A language disorder that affects the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write.

A burning or prickling sensation that is majorly felt in the hands, arms, legs, or feet.

A disorder that deals with the motor planning to perform tasks or movements when asked.

The brain’s ability to change and adapt in response to environmental stimuli.

An abnormal connection between arteries and veins.

A condition characterized by the narrowing of an artery narrows due to the build-up of plaque.

A set of interconnected nuclei in the forebrain.

A medical term for the slowness of movement.

The largest part of the human brain, associated with higher brain function like thought and action.

The wellbeing of the heart and blood vessels.

An ultrasound-based diagnostic imaging technique to reveal structural details of the carotid arteries.

The part of the nervous system which consists of the brain and spinal cord which coordinates the activity of the entire nervous system.

A waxy, fat-like substance that naturally occurs in all parts of the body.

A therapeutic method that primarily deals with anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating disorders and anger problems.

Impairments in an individual's mental processes.

A program to help cognitively impaired individuals to compensate for cognitive deficits.

Behavioral strategies designed to bypass persistent impairment in attention, memory, executive-function, and other cognitive skills.

Visual or verbal techniques that use hand signals or minimal words to inform an individual.

An endogenous chemical that helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centers. It also helps regulate body's movement and emotional responses.

A medical term used to describe unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal.

A set of movement disorders that are characterized by involuntary muscle movements.

A symptom of difficulty in swallowing.

Commonly known as ECG, Electrocardiogram records the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time.

Ischemic strokes that are caused by a blockage of blood supply to part of the brain (caused by embolus).

Any medical disorder causing difficulty in swallowing, regurgitation of food and a spasm-type pain.

A set of mental skills that help an individual look after different aspects of a task.

The portion of the respiratory cycle that involves exhalation, or moving air out of the lungs.

A mnemonic to help detect and enhance responsiveness to stroke victim needs. It stands for Facial drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulties and Time to call emergency services.

Flexor muscles of the forearm that flexes the fingers.

The ability to move each finger one at a time.

A reflex contraction of the back of the throat. Also known as the pharyngeal reflex, it is commonly evoked by touching the uvula, the roof of the mouth, the back of the tongue, the area around the tonsils and the back of the throat.

Problem with gait, balance, and coordination.

A special marching that is characterized by swing legs in unison off the ground while keeping each leg straight and unbent.

The brain's inability to be aware of items to one side of space.

A visual field loss on the left or right side of the vertical midline.

A condition in which the immune system reacts abnormally to a foreign substance.

Relating to any disease which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown.

The portion of the respiratory cycle that involves inhaling air in the lungs.

An attempt to achieve functional grasp and release.

The left side of the brain is responsible for controlling the right side of the body. It looks after tasks dealing with logic.

Development of recreation skills in individuals with learning disabilities.

One of the main drugs used to treat Parkinson's symptoms at all stages of the condition.  It attempts to replace the dopamine that is lost in Parkinson's.

A set of brain structures located on both sides of the thalamus.

An enzyme often associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease.

An imaging technique, used to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the human body.

A counseling approach that harness group processes for evoking and supporting positive change.

A mental process by which an individual rehearses or simulates a given action.

A pathway that connects relatively distant areas of the brain is a bundle of neurons, known collectively as White Matter.

A doctor who specializes in neurology.

A collection of diseases that impair the functioning of the muscles.

The study of the structure and function of the brain, specific to psychological processes and behaviors.

Endogenous chemicals that enable neurotransmission.

An organic chemical that functions as a hormone and neurotransmitter.

The visual processing center of the human brain.

The visual processing center of the human brain.

Skills needed for performing self-directed activities.

A cognitive impairment that results in a disordered sense of smell.

Difficulty initiating a swallow.

A decrease in systolic blood pressure of 20 mm Hg. It is a form of low blood pressure that happens when an individual stands up from sitting or lying down.

Sudden, involuntary bending or straightening of a limb, or jerking of muscle groups such as in the trunk, bladder, or rectum.

The upper limit of tolerance to pain.

The maximum level of pain that an individual is able to tolerate.

A loss of muscle function in part of the human body, most often caused by damage to the nervous system.

The disordered physiological processes associated with disease or injury.

An imaging test that helps reveal how an individual's tissues and organs are functioning.

The sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body.

A practice to help people with a broad variety of mental illnesses and emotional difficulties. It can take shape of cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, psychodynamic therapy, or a combination of these.

A defect in the visual field that affects a quarter of the field of vision.

The acting out of dreams that are vivid, intense, and violent.

A condition that causes involuntary, rapid movement of one or both eyes.

The right side of the brain is responsible for controlling the left side of the body. It performs tasks that have to do with creativity and the arts.

A sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain, which usually affects how a person appears or acts for a short time.

When the body produces too much cholesterol, combines with other substances in the blood and stick to the walls of the arteries. This is called plaque.

A signal that can be extracted from the sensory input.

The process that organizes sensation from one's own body and the environment.

A medical term used for the excessive production of saliva.

A nuclear imaging test that reveals how blood flows to tissues and organs in the human body.

A sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure leading to fainting.

The region of the human brain involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements.

A kind of stroke which occurs when a blood clot (thrombus) forms in one of the arteries that are responsible for blood supply to the brain.

A scale that measures the longitudinal course of Parkinson's disease.

A sense of rotation, rocking, or the world spinning, experienced even when an individual is perfectly still.

A signal that can be extracted from the visual input.

Also known as Hemispatial Inattention; an attention disorder that prevents the patient from attending to stimuli on one side.

A disability to tell where objects are in space.