Chapter 8: Neurologically Based Communication Disorders Flashcards
Ishemic Strokes vs Hemorrhagic Stroke
Ischemic: Causes by a blocked or interrupted blood supply to the brain
1. Thrombotic Strokw: A blood clot (thrombus) in an artery
2. Embolic Stroke: A wandering clot (embolus)
Hemorrhagic: Caused by bleeding in the brain due to ruptured blood vessels
1. Intracerebral Hemorrhages (most common type): Blood vessel bleeds or ruptures into the tissue deep witin the brain
2. Extracerebral Hemorrhages: Ruptures within the meninges
- Blood flow is interrupted to the brain
- Blood pools and damange the cells
Major Symtoms of Aphasia
Paraphasia
Repitition
Logorrhea
Empty Speech
Agarmmatic Speech
Anomia
Circumlocution
Others
Paraphasia
An expressive lnaugage eorror unrelated to motor deficits
Semantic: substitution of one word for another; may be related in meaning (marker for pencil)
Phonemic: Errors at the sound level; phonemes may be substitudes, ommited, or transposed (tup for cup)
Neologistic (neologism): nonword a person creates; they are unintelligible, unrelated to the intended word (skeen for pencil)
Logorrhea
Excessive and inappropirate prodution of speech, often tangential and meaningless
Empty Speech
Substitution of such general words as this, that, stuff, and thing in place of more specific words
Agrammatic speech
Omission of grammatic features in speech; speech that consists mostly of content words (nouns, verbs, etc) and lacks function words (articles, conjunctions, prepositions, etc)
Anomia
Naming difficulty or wordfinding deficit with varying severity
Confrontation naming is especially difficult
Circumlocution
Production of nonspecific words and “beating around the bush” often due to word finiding problems
Broca’s Aphasia Language Impairment characteristics
- Non-fluent and effortful speech- frequent pauses, interjected sounds (um, uh), revisions, repetitions, etc.
- Agrammatic, limited speech- “telegraphic speech”
- Impaired repetition (words and sentences)
- Impaired confrontational naming
- Some impairment in auditory comprehension (complex information)
- Alexia (difficulty reading)
- Agraphia (difficulty writing)- slow, agrammatic, many spelling errors
Site of Lesion for Broca’s Aphasia
- Posterior- inferior portion of frontal lobe
- 3rd frontal convolution
- Broca’s area
Blood supply for for Broca’s Aphasia
Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA)
Transcortical Motor Aphasia Language Impairment characteristics
- Muteness- possibly due to akinesia
- Echolalia and perseverative speech
- Reduced spontaneous speech
- Non-fluent, paraphasic, agrammatic, and telegraphic speech
- Confrontational naming deficits
- Intact repetition
- Relatively intact automatic speech (days, months, numbers)
- Intact knowledge of grammar- can correct others
- Limited word fluency
- Use of motor prompts to initiate speech
- Comprehension > Production
- Alexia
- Agraphia
Site of Lesion for Transcortical Motor Aphasia
- Anterior lesions of left frontal lobe
- Subcortical areas of left frontal lobe in the watershed areas
- Below or above Broca’s Area
Blood Supply for Transcortical Motor Aphasia
- ACA
- Watershed region between ACA and MCA