After the stroke-Brancamp Flashcards
What is cerebral plasticity?
the ability of the brain to rewire when a particular part of a brain is damaged and not functioning
THe brains ability to reassign functions served by damaged tissue diminishes with (blank)
age
The (blank) a person is at the time of brain injury, the more severe the persisting consequences of the injury are likely to be.
older
What is aphasia?
loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage.
What are the four primary facts of aphasia?
- Aphasia is neurogenic
- Aphasia is acquired
- Aphasia involves language problems
- Aphasia is not a problem of sensation, motor function or intellect
(blank) is a multimodality disorder represented by a variety of impairments in auditory comprehension, visual and reading comprehension, oral-expressive language and writing
Aphasia
Aphasia (is/is not) a disturbance of articulation
IS NOT
Are patients with mutism aphasic?
not necessarily
(blank) is the loss of ability to speak through disease of or damage to the larynx or mouth.
Aphonia
Are patients with aphonia aphasic?
NO they are not
Is a language disorder experienced in altered states of awareness aphasic?
no
What is dysarthria?
neurological problems transmitting information to cause musculature control of speech
(difficult or unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal)
Dysarthria designates problems in oral communication due to inability to TRANSMIT commands causing (blank), (blank) or (blank) caused by neurological damage
paralysis, weakness, or incoordination of speech musculature
(blank) is the inability to GENERATE commands to cause particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage (neurogenic) ie. you cannot program commands for muscle movement for speech sounds
apraxia
Can you get apraxia w/out signif weakness or neuromuscular slowness? Can you get apraxia in the absence of disturbances of conscious thought or language?
Yes
Yes
What is the difference between aphasia and apraxia and dysarthria?
Aphasia you have problems generating or understanding speech.
Apraxia you have problems generating speech motor commands.
Dysarthia you have a problem transmitting the signal from you brain to your muscles to execute speech commands.
What are disorders that accompany neurogenic speech disorders?
- agnosia (cant recognize things)
- acalculia (dyscalculia)
- alexia/dyslexia (deep and surface)
- agraphia (dysgraphia)
- constructional disturbance
What is alexia?
What is agraphia?
What is a constitutional disturbance?
Alexia->cant see words
Agraphia-> cant write meaningul words but can write normal letters
constitutional disturbance-> is characterized by an inability or difficulty to build, assemble, or draw objects.
Approx. (blank) percent of aphasia syndromes conform to a classical anatomo-clinical scheme;
80%
Where will your lesion be located if you have Broca’s aphasia?
- lateral frontal
- suprasylvian
- pre-Rolandic
- extending into adjacent subcortical periventricular white matter
Where will your lesion be located if you have wernickes aphasia?
posterior 1/3rd of superior temporal gyrus
Where will your lesion be located if you have conduction aphasia?
superior marginal gyrus and underlying white matter pathways, wernickes area, left insula and auditory cortex
Where will your lesion be located if you have an anomic aphasia?
Angular gyrus and second temporal gyrus
Where will your lesion be located if you have trancortical motor aphasia?
Anterior frontal paramedian; anterior and superior to brocas area
Where will your lesion be located if you have transcortical sensory aphasia?
Posterior parieto-temporal, sparing Wernicke’s area
Where will your lesion be located if you have a global aphasia?
large perisylvian, extending deep into subadjacent white matter
Where will your lesion be located if you have subcortical aphasia?
thalamus head of caudate nucleus putamen and/or internal capsule
(blank) is a bundle of axons that forms part of the superior longitudinal fasciculus. The arcuate bidirectionally connects caudal temporal cortex and inferior parietal cortex to locations in the frontal lobe.
arcuate fasciculus
What is thought to be the function of the arcuate fasciculus?
connects two important areas for language use, Broca’s area in the inferior frontal gyrus and Wernicke’s area in the posterior superior temporal gyrus.
(blank) allows for communcation between the components of the limbic system. It wraps around the frontal lobe to the temporal lobe and is involved in apathy and depression. THe posterior portion is related to cognition
cingulum
its location allows for the intergration of information
Explain what the posterior component of the cingulum regulates?
attention, visual and spatial skills, working memory, and general memory
What part of the brain does this:
motor programming for articulation (anterior language zone)
Broca’s area
What part of the brain does this:
activation of muscles for articulation
precentral gyrus
What part of the brain does this:
transmision of linguistic info to anterior areas from posterior areas
arcuate fasciculus
What part of the brain does this:
comprehension of oral language (posterior language zone)
Wernicke’s area
What part of the brain does this:
integrate visual, auditory and tactile info and carries out symbolic integration for reading (L parietal thought to be one of two areas associated with alexia-also L occipital)
angular gyrus
What part of the brain does this:
symbolic integration for writing
supramarginal gyrus
What part of the brain does this:
transmission of info b/w hemispheres
corpus callosum
What are the dichotomous classifications of aphasia?
- receptive vs. expressive aphasia
- motor vs. sensory aphasia
- fluent vs. nonfluent aphasia
What are all the cortical aphasia syndromes?
- brocas aphasia
- wernickes aphasia
- conduction aphasia
- anomic aphasia
- transcortical motor aphasia
- transcortical sensory aphasia
- global aphasia
- mixed nonfluent aphasia
What are all the subcortical aphasia syndromes?
- anterior capsular-putaminal aphasia
- posterior capsuar-putaminal aphasia
- global capsular-putaminal aphasia
- thalamic aphasia
Whats up with a persons speech who has aphasia?
they can produce it but it wont conform to grammatical rules of the language being used
What are the grammatical errors like in pnts who have aphasia?
- omission of words
- erroneous choice of words
- errors in word order
During the first hours or days of aphasia onset, the aphasic person may not produce (Blank) but most will attempt to do what?
speech
communicate by gesture or facial expression
A patient with aphasia often has difficulty comprehending a purely (blank) command
Verbal
i.e verbal messages through auditory or visual means w/out gestures, facial expressions or emotional intonation
Patients with aphasia have errors ranging from almost complete inability to comprehend a (blank) to mild deficits with (Blank)
single world
complex sentences
What is a Patient with aphasias awareness level?
So what are they intent on?
complete normal (is aware of self and environment) -intent on communicating thoughts regarding his/her condition and environment
When will aphasic patients not try to communicate?
during the first few hours after acute infarcts and late chronic stages for a few