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Aphasia Flashcards

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What diseases are not considered contributors to aphasia?

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  • dementia
  • sensory loss
  • motor dysfunction
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What makes dysarthria different than aphasia?

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  • Good grammatical structure
  • can call words to mind
  • can read/write
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Name a few cognitive issues normally associated with aphasia

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  • Word-finding problems
  • Grammatical formulation problems
  • Reading comprehension problems
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T/F: In people with aphasia, intonation is preserved. In fluent aphasia, grammar is poor but nouns are present.

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False, no nouns.

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What type of aphasia did Broca discover?

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Non-fluent

-speech generation

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What type of aphasia did Wernicke discover?

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Conduction aphasia due to disconnect from flow regions

-comprehension deficit

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List pathologies that cause aphasia.

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  • Left CVA
  • Neurodegenerative diseases: PPA, FTD, AD
  • Brain tumor
  • TBI
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Which lobes all contain part of the language zone?

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Front, temporal and parietal.

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What artery supplies the language zone?

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MCA

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In which lobes are Broca’s and Wernicke’s area located.

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BROCA

  • frontal
  • ascending frontal branch?

WERNICKE

  • temporal
  • inferior division MCA?
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The assessment of aphasia includes which 4 major areas?

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  1. Auditory comp
  2. Verbal expression
  3. Reading comp
  4. Writing
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How do you assess auditory comp?

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  1. Point to object in room

2. Follow commands

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What is agraphia?

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Difficulty writing on paper

-signature or something else overlearned may be okay

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T/F: It is common for patients with aphasia to have lim and oral-facial apraxia?

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True.

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In addition to attention, what other functions can be affectted by left-hemisphere stroke?

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  • Visuo-spatial functioning

- Memory

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According to the Boston Classification System, what are the major syndromes of non-fluent aphasia?

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  1. Broca’s
  2. Global
  3. Transcortical Motor
17
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What are the syndromes of fluent aphasia?

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  1. Wernicke’s
  2. Conduction
  3. Transcortical Sensory
  4. Anomic
18
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What performance skills further differentiate the 7 syndromes?

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  1. Fluency/non-fluency of spontaneous verbal output
  2. Auditory comprehension
  3. Repetition
19
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Name the two impairment-based treatment approaches to aphasia and give an example of each.

A

FIX-IT THERAPIES
-address underlying linguistic deficit

COMPENSATORY THERAPIES

  • Gesturing
  • Drawing

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