Aphasia

Question 1

What is Aphasia?

Answer 1

• Aphasia is a disorder that affects how you communicate

Question 2

What is Wernicke’s Aphasia?

Answer 2

• Due to a lesion in the superior temporal Gyrus
• Supplied by the inferior division of the left MCA
• This area forms the speech before sending it to the Broca’s area
• Lesions result in sentences that make no sense, word substitution and neologisms but speech remains fluent
• World Salad
• Comprehension is impaired

Question 3

What is Broca’s Aphasia?

Answer 3

• Due to a lesion in the inferior frontal gyrus
• Supplied by the super division of the left MCA
• Speech is non-fluent, laboured, halting, repetition is impaired
• Comprehension is normal

Question 4

What is Conduction Aphasia?

Answer 4

• A stroke affecting the arcuate fasiculus
• This is the lesion between Wernicke’s and Broca’s area
• Speech is fluent but repetition is poor
• Comprehension is normal

Question 5

What is Global Aphasia?

Answer 5

• Large lesion affects all 3 of the above areas
• This results in severe expressive and receptive aphasia