aphasia

Question 1

______ is difficulty finding words and is the core feature of every aphasia syndrome

Answer 1

anomia (pg. 256)

Question 2

what are the 4 other disorders that commonly accompany aphasia?

Answer 2

1. perseveration
2. apraxia
3. agnosia
4. nonverbal cognitive impairment
   (pg. 257)

Question 3

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

Answer 3

anomalous (pg.259)

Question 4

what are the 4 common etiologies of aphasia?

Answer 4

1. cerebrovascular disease
2. traumatic brain injury
3. brain tumors
4. neurodegenerative disease
   (pg. 259)

Question 5

risk factors for cerebrovascular disease include what 5 things?

Answer 5

1. high cholesterol
2. diabetes
3. smoking
4. hypertension
5. heart disease
   (pg. 260)

Question 6

what nonlinguistic cognitive functions interact with language skills?

Answer 6

• memory
• attention
• executive functioning
• visuospatial functioning
  (pg. 264)

Question 7

_______ is a temporary loss of function and electrical activity in brain regions remote from the lesion but connected via neural networks

Answer 7

diachisis (pg.271)

Question 8

when does spontaneous recovery begin?

Answer 8

in the first 6 months after diaschisis fades (pg.271)

Question 9

_________ is a term most commonly used to describe a subtle but measurable memory disorder

Answer 9

mild cognitive impairment (pg. 287)

Question 10

is vascular dementia progressive?

Answer 10

not necessarily progressive (pg.289)

Question 11

true/false: life expectancy after diagnosis of vascular dementia is not long due to vascular disease and its association with other medical conditions

Answer 11

true (pg.289)

Question 12

_____ 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

Answer 12

frontal variant FTD (pg.291)

Question 13

elements of _________ syndrome late in house of FTD include:

1. increased sexual activity
2. hyperorality (oral exploration of objects)
3. apathy and placidity

Answer 13

Kluver-Bucy syndrome (pg.291)

Question 14

to be diagnosed with PPA, only language must be impress and this must be the case for the past ___ years

Answer 14

2 (pg.291)

Question 15

eventually, the majority of people diagnosed with PPA will develop a more global dementia syndrome within about ___ years of onset

Answer 15

5 (pg.291)

Question 16

_____ is a surgical approach that has had great success in treating the motor disorder associated with Parkinson’s diseases

Answer 16

Deep brain stimulation (pg.293)

Question 17

what are some compensatory strategies used for individuals with dementia? (2 things )

Answer 17

1. AAC

2. memory books

Question 18

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

Answer 18

B. Marked deficiency in producing grammatical morphemes

Question 19

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

Answer 19

frontotemporal dementia associated with Pick’s disease.