Chapter 7 Neurological Flashcards
Broca area
Speech motor planning.
Frontal lobe
Wernickes area
Temporal lobe
Comprehension of speech and language concepts
Aphasia
Loss of ability to comprehend or formulate language
Two types of aphasia
Fluent
Non fluent
Fluent- normal rhythm and rate, but nonsense
Nonfluent- choppy, difficult to form sentences
Anomia
Difficulty recalling names of objects, words, etc.
Know what things are, or what want to say, but can’t find the words.
Neologisms
Ct makes up word in fluent sentence.
“Can you hand me the gobo?
Paraphasias
Aphasic ct’s substitute words that sound alike or have similar meaning
Do you like my new wrist clock?
Let’s go to the tar for a beer
Agrammatism
Articles, conjunctions, etc are left out.
I go now
Jargon
Normal rate and rhythm but unintelligible meaning.
What do you do for work?
“My go always, blinda time final”
Agnosia
Two types
Difficulty identifying sensory info
Verbal- can speak, read and write but can’t understand spoken language
Visual- can read, but can’t explain what read. Also can see face, but can’t recognize.
Three types of expressive deficits
Anomia
Neologism
Agrammatism
Deficit of comprehension
Agnosia
Agraphia
Inability to write
Problem connecting language area to write words
Alexia
Problem reading when used to read fine
Aka part of visual Agnosia
Brocas aphasia
Nonfluent speech
Sentences usually contain nouns, verbs and sometimes an objective
Inability to understand complex sentence.
Do birds fly- yes
The zebra was killed by the lion- unable to answer who was killed.
Difficulty reading comprehension
Expressive disorder
