Aphasia pt 2

Question 1

what is the auditory comprehension task

Answer 1

can the person select appropriate items, answer yes or no questions, and/or follow commands

Question 2

pure word deafness

Answer 2

auditory verbal agnosia
person hears the word but cannot tell you the meaning of the word
inability to comprehend speech

Question 3

agraphia

Answer 3

loss ability to write

Question 4

pure agraphia

Answer 4

agraphia is the only communication deficit resulting from focal lesion

Question 5

paragraphias

Answer 5

incorrect spelling errors caused by brain damage

Question 6

alexia

Answer 6

disorder reading that affects reading aloud
understanding the meaning of written words
or both

Question 7

parietal agraphia

Answer 7

alexia w agraphia

most common reading/writing disorder together

Question 8

when is parietal agraphia prominent

Answer 8

after damage to left angular gyrus

Question 9

alexia without agraphia

Answer 9

pure word blindness

pt can write spontaneously and to dictation but cannot read

Question 10

response dynamism

Answer 10

utterances that are uncontrolled

spontaneous conversation

Question 11

stereotypy

Answer 11

short utterance used exclusively in all speaking attempts it can be a word of a phrase

Question 12

monoaphasia

Answer 12

when a pt only has one word available

Question 13

verbal perseveration

Answer 13

word or phrase temporarily becomes the response to all stimuli
at the outset of this period, the response was appropriate to a particular stimulus

Question 14

pallilalia

Answer 14

unhibited repetition of ones own utterances

Question 15

echolalia

Answer 15

uninhibited repetition of anothers utterances

Question 16

when u have brocas aphasia where is the lesion at

Answer 16

posterior inferior frontal gyru in L hemisphere

Question 17

broca’s is characterized by

Answer 17

• awkward articulation
• restricted vocab
• restriction to simple grammatical forms in presence of a relative preservation of auditory comprehension
• writing mirrors speech
• reading less impaired

Question 18

when u have wernickes aphasia where is the lesion at

Answer 18

posterior superior temporal gyrus

Question 19

wernickes is characterized by

Answer 19

• impaired auditory comprehension and fluently articulated speech marked by word subs
• reading and writing severely impaired
• speech produced at greater rate
• production of speech is precise

Question 20

jargon aphasia

Answer 20

• speech is incomprehensible but appears to make sense to the individual
• replace a word with another that sounds or looks like the original, or some connection

Question 21

what is jargon aphasia usually associated with

Answer 21

wernickes

Question 22

what is this an example of: potatoe gropes the long table

Answer 22

semantics

Question 23

what is this an example of: limpoo baroo geep ir manu “ points to salt”

Answer 23

neologism

Question 24

anomic aphasia

Answer 24

word finding difficulty within fluent speech

Question 25

conduction aphasia

Answer 25

main impairment is in the inability to repeat words or phrases
- associative aphasia

Question 26

if u have conduction aphasia where is the lesion

Answer 26

arcuate fasiciulus

- often observed in L temporal lobe in the auditory association area

Question 27

global aphasia

Answer 27

no language modalities at all

Question 28

transcortical aphasia

Answer 28

any aphasic syndrome whose lesion falls outside of the perisylvian area

Question 29

transcortical motor aphasia

Answer 29

nonfluent speech with greater effort required than brocas

repetition and comprehension intact

Question 30

transcortical sensory aphasia

Answer 30

fluent speech marked with paraphasias with semantic and neologistic subs, poor comprehension and good reps

Question 31

mixed transcortical aphasia

Answer 31

• surrounding areas around brocas and wernickes are damaged –> isolates them
• severe disordered language except in repetition
• echolalia

Question 32

what is the common cause of mixed transcortical aphasia

Answer 32

• watershed stroke of the language association areas as a result of internal carotid stenosis

Question 33

dysarthria

Answer 33

impairments of speech production resulting from damage to the central or peripheral nervous system, causing weakness, paralysis or incoordination of motor speech system

Question 34

anarthria

Answer 34

speech completely unintelligible

Question 35

apraxia of speech

Answer 35

impaired capacity to plan or program sensorimotor commands necessary for directing movements that result in phonetically and prosodically normal speech

Question 36

dysphagia

Answer 36

swallowing disorder due to medical condition in oral cavity, pharynx or larynx