Chapter 11

Question 1

What are some causes of neurological disorders in young adults?

Answer 1

TBI, toxins

Question 2

What are some causes of neurological disorders in older adults?

Answer 2

Tumor, stroke, degenerative disease,

Question 3

TBI caused by a blunt force; swelling of the brain

Answer 3

Closed head injury

Question 4

TBI caused by penetration that goes through the skull

Answer 4

Open head injury

Question 5

Stroke caused by a blocked artery

Answer 5

Occlusive (ischemic)

Question 6

Stroke caused by a ruptured artery

Answer 6

Cerebral Hemorrhage

Question 7

What determines the extent and nature of the brain damage?

Answer 7

Location and size of lesion

Question 8

What are the symptoms of a stroke?

Answer 8

Balance, eyes, face, arms, speech, time

Question 9

Condition that causes gradual deterioration of normal function

Answer 9

Degenerative disease

Question 10

Language processing deficit that may affect all input and output modalities

Answer 10

Aphasia

Question 11

Lesions near language areas of the left temporal lobes; causes word errors, syntactical errors, poor comprehension, but speaks normally

Answer 11

Fluent aphasia

Question 12

Lesions near the Broca’s area that causes difficulties in initiating speech, maintaining a normal rate of speech, and speaking easily

Answer 12

Nonfluent aphasia

Question 13

What are the 3 major types of aphasia?

Answer 13

Wernicke’s, Broca’s, global

Question 14

What are the 2 main approaches of therapy for aphasia?

Answer 14

Restorative and compensatory

Question 15

Improves underlying impaired processes

Answer 15

Restorative

Question 16

Teaches strategies to cope with persistent language deficits

Answer 16

Compensatory

Question 17

May not know what they want to say, able to move mouth easily

Answer 17

Expressive

Question 18

Knows what to say but is not able to express it because of body movement difficulty

Answer 18

Motor speech

Question 19

Subtle cognitive impairments that create visual spatial impairments, attention impairments

Answer 19

Right hemisphere syndrome

Question 20

Lack of ability to name things

Answer 20

Anomia

Question 21

Progressive brain disease that causes the deterioration of intellect, cognition, communication, and personality

Answer 21

Dementia

Question 22

Cortical tissue loss and atrophy, causes deterioration of memory, intellect, communication, and orientation

Answer 22

Alzheimer’s