aphasia Flashcards
______ is difficulty finding words and is the core feature of every aphasia syndrome
anomia (pg. 256)
what are the 4 other disorders that commonly accompany aphasia?
- perseveration
- apraxia
- agnosia
- nonverbal cognitive impairment
(pg. 257)
only about 1% of right-handers and 30% of left-handers do not show the typical patterns of dominance; this is referred to as ________ dominance
anomalous (pg.259)
what are the 4 common etiologies of aphasia?
- cerebrovascular disease
- traumatic brain injury
- brain tumors
- neurodegenerative disease
(pg. 259)
risk factors for cerebrovascular disease include what 5 things?
- high cholesterol
- diabetes
- smoking
- hypertension
- heart disease
(pg. 260)
what nonlinguistic cognitive functions interact with language skills?
- memory
- attention
- executive functioning
- visuospatial functioning
(pg. 264)
_______ is a temporary loss of function and electrical activity in brain regions remote from the lesion but connected via neural networks
diachisis (pg.271)
when does spontaneous recovery begin?
in the first 6 months after diaschisis fades (pg.271)
_________ is a term most commonly used to describe a subtle but measurable memory disorder
mild cognitive impairment (pg. 287)
is vascular dementia progressive?
not necessarily progressive (pg.289)
true/false: life expectancy after diagnosis of vascular dementia is not long due to vascular disease and its association with other medical conditions
true (pg.289)
_____ is also known as the behavioral variant of FTD and does not include aphasia. it is characterized by disinhibition, poor implies control, apathy, and antisocial behavior
frontal variant FTD (pg.291)
elements of _________ syndrome late in house of FTD include:
- increased sexual activity
- hyperorality (oral exploration of objects)
- apathy and placidity
Kluver-Bucy syndrome (pg.291)
to be diagnosed with PPA, only language must be impress and this must be the case for the past ___ years
2 (pg.291)
eventually, the majority of people diagnosed with PPA will develop a more global dementia syndrome within about ___ years of onset
5 (pg.291)
_____ is a surgical approach that has had great success in treating the motor disorder associated with Parkinson’s diseases
Deep brain stimulation (pg.293)
what are some compensatory strategies used for individuals with dementia? (2 things )
- AAC
2. memory books
Among the following symptoms, which one is not an especially significant feature of
traumatic brain injury in children?
a. sentence comprehension problems
b. marked deficiency in producing grammatical morhphemes
c. topic maintanence
d. word-retrieval problems
B. Marked deficiency in producing grammatical morphemes
A physician refers a 50-year-old male patient with dementia to you for assessment and
treatment. The referring physician suggests the strong possibility of dense intracellular
formation in the neuronal cytoplasm and ballooned and inflated neurons. Your assessment
reveals that the patient has had a progressive loss of vocabulary, paraphasia,
circumlocution, and dominant language problems, with somewhat better preserved memory
and orientation. The most likely diagnosis you would make on this patient is
frontotemporal dementia associated with Pick’s disease.