Aphasia Flashcards
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Broca’s Aphasia Brain Region
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- Damage to frontal lobe which controls speech production
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Broca’s Aphasia is also known as…
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- Expressive aphasia
- Non-fluent aphasia
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Broca’s Aphasia Definition
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- Impacted ability to produce speech
- Difficulty forming words and sentences — even though patient understands what they want to say
- Struggles to speak fluently and often produces short, fragmented phrases
- Good comprehension of spoken language
- Difficulty writing but can understand written speech
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Broca’s Aphasia Example
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- Patient might try to say “I want a drink” but only manage to utter “Drink…water”
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Wernike’s Aphasia Brain Region
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- Damage to posterior portion of temporal lobe
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Wernike’s Aphasia is also known as…
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- Receptive aphasia
- Fluent aphasia
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Wernike’s Aphasia Example
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- Patient might try to say a long sentence with grammatically correct structure but the words are completely wrong, making the sentence meaningless
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Wernike’s Aphasia Definition
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- Impacted ability understanding language, leading to fluent but nonsensical speech
- Can speak fluently with normal sentence structure but the words do not make sense
- Patient is unaware of their deficit
- Difficulty writing (correct grammar and sentence structure but with wrong word choice or spelling)
- Difficulty understanding written language
