Aphasia

Question 1

Motor speech

Answer 1

Broca’s area

Inferior frontal gyrus

Question 2

Making sense of words

Answer 2

Wernickes

Superior temporal gyrus

Question 3

Tract that connects Broca to Wernicke

Answer 3

Arcuate fasciculus

Question 4

Blood supply to Broca and Wernicke

Answer 4

MCA esp terminal branches can have more specific deficits

Question 5

Can’t make words but can understand what’s being said, can’t repeat, usually very frustrated. This is what kind of aphasia?

Answer 5

Broca’s aphasia (expressive aphasia)

Question 6

Can’t understand what’s being said, is speaking but makes no sense, can’t repeat. Usually not frustrated

Answer 6

Wernicke’s Aphasia (receptive aphasia)

Question 7

Can speak, can understand, but can’t repeat what someone is saying

Answer 7

Conduction aphasia (damage to the arcuate fasciculus that connects Broca and Wernicke)

Question 8

Can’t understand, can’t speak, can’t repeat

Answer 8

Global aphasia

Question 9

Any of the broca or wernicke aphasia that present with the ability to repeat just means that an area around broca or wernicke has been affected but the speech centers have been spared.

Answer 9

Broca (Frontal lobe affected)

Wernicke (temporal lobe affected)