aphasia

Question 1

conductive aphasia

Answer 1

lesion in neural pathway connecting broca’s and wenicke’s area
patients have fluent speech and good comprehension but unable to repeat words or phrases

Question 2

broca’s aphasia

Answer 2

non-fluent aphasia
- BROken speech
slow, halting speech and poor articulation

Question 3

global aphasia

Answer 3

severe expressive and receptive aphasia
may still be able to communicate with gestures

Question 4

wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 4

receptive
due to lesion in the superior temporal gyris
snetences that make no sense, word substitution and neologisms
word salad
comprehension is impaired
WEIRD speech