Aphasia

Question 1

What is Broca’s aphasia?

Answer 1

aka expressive dysphasia

comprehension intact, the patient understands and attempts to answer.
Non-fluent speech, produced with effort but with malformed words and grammar errors

reading and writing impaired

difficulty in naming objects and parts of

Question 2

What is Wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 2

aka receptive dysphasia

comprehension, reading and writing all impaired.

Speech is fluent, yet empty and makes little sense

Patient oblivious to errors

Test by asking a command (point to the window)

Question 3

What is nominal dysphasia?

Answer 3

individual objects cannot be named and the patient knows this.

Question 4

What is conductive dysphasia?

Answer 4

lesions around arcuate fasciculus (posterior parietal and temporal regions). difficulty in repetition

Question 5

What is dysarthria? What causes this?

Answer 5

difficulty with articulation due to incoordination or weakness of muscles (ie. bulbar/pseudobulbar palsy, cerebellar damage, extrapyramidal disease)