215M11

Question 1

-nonfluent aphasias-

Answer 1

difficulties articulating but good verbal comprehension (brocas) associated with damage in frontal lobe

Question 2

-fluent aphasias

Answer 2

-fluent speech but difficulty with auditory comprehension or verbal comprehension or in reptiation of words spoken by others (wernicke’s, anomic) damage to the temporal lobe

Question 3

Disorders of production-

Answer 3

poor articulation, word finding deficit, loss of syntax, inability to repeat

Question 4

Disorders of comprehension-

Answer 4

poor auditory or visual comphrension

Question 5

Secondary aphasia

Answer 5

due to memory impairments, attention disorders or perceptual problems

Question 6

Primary aphasia

Answer 6

due to problems with language processing mechanisms

Question 7

Anathria-

Answer 7

incoordination of muscles of hand/writing

Question 8

Alexia-

Answer 8

reading inability

Question 9

Agraphia-

Answer 9

disorder in writing

Question 10

Aphasia-

Answer 10

disorder of language apparent in speech and writing, or reading produced by injury to the brain in areas for these functions