aphasia Flashcards
to evaluate aphasia pay attention to
- fluency of speech
- comprehension
- ability to repeat spoken words
Broca aphasia is also known as
expressive aphasia
which area is affected in broca aphasia
frontal lobe
what is affected in speech in broca aphasia
fluency and repetition are affected
compehension is good; hence called expressive aphasia
patient appear frustrated, insight is intact
wernicke aphasia is also known as
receptive aphasia
which area of brain is affected in wernicke aphasia
temporal lobe
What is affected in speech- wernicke aphasia
comprehension and repetition are affected
fluency of speech is good (word salad)
patient has NO insight
conduction aphasia - what part of speech is affected
repetition is affected
fluency and comprehension is good
which part of brain affected in conduction aphasia
damage to
* arcuate fasiculus
* or insula
transcortical motor aphasia - which part of brain is affected
frontal lobe around broca area
but broca area is intact!
echolalia (meaningless repetition of spoken words)
transcortical motor aphasia - what part of speech is affected
fluency affected
comprehension and repetition is intact
(echolalia= meaningless repetition)
transcortical sensory aphasia- which part of brain is affected
temporal lobe around wernicke area but wernicke area intact!
transcortical sensory aphasia- which part of speech affected
comprehension is affected
fluency and repetition is intact
transcortical mixed - which part of brain affected
watershed areas affected; broca and wernicke areas intact
transcortical mixed - part of speech affected
fluency and comprehension affected
repetition intact
