brain aphasia etc

Question 1

aphasia means

Answer 1

impairment of language due to brain damage generally caused by stroke

Question 2

brocas aphasia is

Answer 2

damage to frontal lobe LEFT
non flunent aphasia
trouble with speech production and results in short simple sentences mostly verbs nouns, reading and writing not as affected, person is concious of their problem

Question 3

wernickes aphasia is

Answer 3

damage to temporal lobe LEFT
fluent aphasia
cant produce meaningful sentences but fluent trouble with speech comprehension and language, unaware of the issue

Question 4

brocas area responsible for

Answer 4

production of articulate speech, grammatical structure of sentences and analysis

Question 5

wernickes aphasia is responsible for

Answer 5

interpretation and understanding of speech, language and comprehension

Question 6

spatial neglect

Answer 6

damage to right parietal lobe that results in a person completely ignoring anything on their left hand side, not a problem of blindness, but ignorance

Question 7

split brain procedure

Answer 7

corpus callosum is cut to disable information between left and right hemispheres. if image is shown to right visual field the person can name it but if shown to left visual field person can not name it but draw or pick it up

Question 8

concussion causes

Answer 8

mild cases, retrogade amnesia , disrupts the process of memory. however worse cases such as boxers will result in slurred speech, amnesia cognitive defects brain damage