aphasia

Question 1

categories of aphasia

Answer 1

nonfluent
fluent
subcortical

Question 2

characteristics of nonfluent

Answer 2

limited 
agrammatic
effortful
halting 
slow speech 
impaired prosody

Question 3

types of nonfluent

Answer 3

broca’s
global
transcortical motor
mixed transcortical

Question 4

what is fluent aphasia

Answer 4

fluency is intact, less meaningful speech; usually good flow, articulation, and prosody

Question 5

types of fluent aphasia

Answer 5

wernickes
conductive
anomic
transcortical sensory

Question 6

where is brocas aphasia and wernickes aphasia

Answer 6

both in left hemspiher

lesion to Broca’s area which is in posterior inferior frontal gryrus
lesion to wernickes are in posterior portion of superior temporal gyrus

Question 7

repetition for broca’s and wernicke’s

Answer 7

both impaired repetition

Question 8

area of transcortical motor

Answer 8

anterior superior frontal lob of language hemisphere

Question 9

characteristics of transcortical motor

Answer 9

rigid upper extremities (motor), slow movement or no movement at all, generally good comprehension, good repetition

Question 10

mixed transcortical aphasia

Answer 10

spares broca’s and wernickes, impairs language association areas; like global but CAN repeat

Question 11

mixed transcortical aphasia

Answer 11

caused by watershed stroke; spares broca’s and wernickes, impairs language association areas; like global but CAN repeat

Question 12

global aphasia

Answer 12

most severe
affects comprehension and expression both wernickes and broca’s
impaired repetition

Question 13

wernicke;s

Answer 13

impaired repletion
word finding issues
poor comprehension 
poor self monitoring 
jargon

Question 14

transcortical sensory

Answer 14

lesion in temporoparietal lobe, may affect occipital
poor comprehension
good repetition
fluent but empty speech

Question 15

what is damaged in conduction aphasia

Answer 15

arcuate fasciculus *(temporal, parietal, area 41 and 42 auditory cortex)

Question 16

characteristics of conductive aphasia

Answer 16

grossly impaired repetition, relatively preserved language comprehension

Question 17

explain all the aphasias

Answer 17

broca’s- nonfluent; posterior inferior frontal gyrus; poor repetition

transcortical motor- nonfluent; anterior superior frontal lobe in language hemisphere; rigid to little movement; good comprehension, good repetition

mixed transcortical- nonfluent; poor language overall but doesn’t affect broca’s or wernickes, like global but good repetition

global- impaired broca and wernickes

wernicke- fluent; poor comprehension, poor repetition but fluent speech; posterior portion of superior temporal gyrus

conduction- fluent, rare, arculate fasciculus; good comprehension very poor repetition

transcortical sensory- fluent, temporoparietal lesion, poor comprehension good repetition, no meaning in speech

anomic- usually result of aphasias kind of affects all areas