Case Studies

Question 1

Patient Tono Tono

Answer 1

• all he can say is “tono tono”
• can understand & respond, but language production is limited
• Broca’s aphasia (non-fluent/expressive)
• can count a little b/c it is automatic

Question 2

Broca’s aphasia patient

Answer 2

• can understand but cannot produce fluent, coherent speech
• finding words is very difficult
• non-fluent aphasia

Question 3

Wernicke’s aphasia patient

Answer 3

• says words fluently but they don’t make sense; word salad
• speech production is fine but there is a deficit of speech comprehension
• fluent aphasia

Question 4

MoCA test

Answer 4

cognitive screening test to evaluate cognitive function in neuropsychological domains

Question 5

patient with Apperceptive Visual Agnosia

Answer 5

• couldn’t identify objects, read letters, or copy a simple line drawing correctly
• caused by hypoxic arrest from narcotics overdose

Question 6

patient with Central Hemiachromatopsia

Answer 6

• unable to discriminate colors in left superior homonymous field; saw all colors in that field as white/grey
• caused by right inferior occipital stroke

Question 7

patient with Prosopagnosia

Answer 7

• difficulty distinguishing faces; faces look smoother & less defined (like an Instagram filter)
• due to breast cancer that affected right occipitotemporal cortex in the fusiform face area

Question 8

Alexia Without Agraphia

Answer 8

• inability to read words, but written and spoken language normal
• due to tumor involving left occipital lobe & part of corpus callosum

Question 9

Riddoch Syndrome

Answer 9

• can detect motion but not still objects (–> deficit in ventral stream)
• due to cerebral artery stroke following a TBI

Question 10

Typical 3-year old sorting cards

Answer 10

• first asked to sort according to color (and forget about shape)
• when game changes to sort according to shape, there is perseveration from the Color Game & the boy continues to sort according to color