Aphasia and communication

Question 1

dysphasia

Answer 1

Difficulty swallowing

Question 2

aphasia

Answer 2

Inability to speak

Question 3

dyslexia

Answer 3

Difficulty in reading

Question 4

alexia

Answer 4

Inability to read

Question 5

Aphasia is more prevalent in

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Parkinson’s Disease or Muscular Dystrophy

Question 6

Receptive aphasia

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Primary difficulty with comprehension

Question 7

Example of receptive aphasia

Answer 7

Wernicke’s aphasia

Question 8

Expressive aphasia

Answer 8

Primary difficulty with expression of language

Question 9

Expressive aphasia example

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Broca aphasia or apraxia

Question 10

Apraxia

Answer 10

motor programming breakdown

Question 11

Dysarthria

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Loss of motor control during speaking. IE chuck from psychosocial

Question 12

Anterior cerebral artery supplies

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frontal lobe and premotor areas. Making decisions to say something

Question 13

middle cerebral artery supplies

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the middle part which contains most of the language center. the middle also supplies the post central gyrus

Question 14

Primary sensory cortex

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simple sensory discrimination (quality and intensity) it’s a human speaking

Question 15

secondary sensory cortex

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recognition of sensation. What language am I hearing

Question 16

Supplementary motor area

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Initiation of movement, orientation of the eyes and head, and planning bimanual and sequential movements

Question 17

Premotor area

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Controls trunk and girdle muscles via the medial upper motor neurons

Question 18

Broca’s area

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Planning movements of the mouth during speech and the grammatical aspects of language. Doesn’t have to do with planning what I want to say
Correlates words when writing

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Primary somatosensory cortex

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Receives information from tactile and proprioceptive receptors via a three-neuron pathway
Determine location of stimulus
Understanding of shape, size, and texture of a structure
Awareness through discriminative touch and proprioception

Question 20

Primary auditory cortices (PAC)

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Receive information from the cochlea of both ears via a pathway that synapses in the inferior colliculus and medial geniculate body before reaching the cortex
Determines the loudness and pitch of sounds

Question 21

Primary visual cortex

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distinguishes shape, intensity of light, size and location of object

Question 22

primary vestibular cortex

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discriminates among head movements and head positions

Question 23

Wernicke’s area

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Comprehension of the spoken language

Interprets symbols

Question 24

Secondary somatosensory cortex

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stereogenesis and memory of tactile and spatial environment

Question 25

secondary visual cortex

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analysis of motion, color and control of visual fixation

Question 26

secondary auditory cortex

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classification of sounds