Aphasia

Question 0

What is non fluent aphasia?

Answer 0

Damage to: pre-rolandic brain regions

Speech sparse and agrammatic, often described as slow, effort full and poorly articulated

Fragmented hesitant speech output

Tendency to omit non essential words and grammatical elements

Reliance on content words

Word finding difficulties

Question 1

What are the two major subtypes or aphasia?

Answer 1

1) fluent

2) non- fluent

Question 2

What is Broca’s aphasia?

Answer 2

Type of non-fluent aphasia

Comprehension relatively well preserved compared to production

Speech comprised of short utterances

Agrammatic

Commonly associated with apraxia of speech

Poor repetition

Question 3

What is fluent aphasia?

Answer 3

Damage to: rolandic brain regions

Speech copious but devoid of content, meaningless in extreme cases

Well formed, fluent speech output

Normal grammatical elements

Word selection difficulties

Question 4

What is wernickes aphasia?

Answer 4

Type of fluent aphasia

Fluent speech with long well formed sentences

Preponderance of word finding difficulties

Comprehension severely impaired

Repetition impaired

Articulation and prosody normal