Aphasias Flashcards
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Conduction Aphasia
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- Fluent
- Intact comprehension
- Impaired repetition, naming, writing
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Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
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- Fluent, echolalic
- Impaired comprehension, naming, reading, writing
- Intact repetition
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Transcortical Motor Aphasia
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- Nonfluent
- Intact comprehension, repetition
- Impaired writing
5
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Alexia without Agraphia
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Inability to read words but can write
AKA Pure Word Blindness
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Nonfluent Aphasia
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Broca’s
* Sparse, effortful, dysarthric, dysprosodic
* Impaired repetition
* Impaired writing
* Intact comprehension
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Fluent Aphasia
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- Wernicke’s: Fluent speech, impaired comprehension and repetition. May be nonsensical speech.
- Conduction: Impaired repetition, impaired writing, intact comprehension.
