Fitz 6

Question 1

Aphasia

Answer 1

disturbance in the formulation or the comprehension of language

Question 2

Aprosody

Answer 2

disturbance in production or understanding of emotional content of speech

Question 3

Apraxia of speech

Answer 3

Inability to translate speech plans into motor activity

Question 4

Dysarthrias

Answer 4

disturbances in muscular control that affect speech production

Question 5

Fluent aphasia

Answer 5

Person can speak but you cant comprehend what they are saying

Question 6

Non-fluent aphasia

Answer 6

person knows what they want to say but they cant say it

Question 7

Receptive Wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 7

Deficits in auditory and verbal comprehension

• often nonsense
• non frustrating for patient but it is for other people

Question 8

Expressive (broca’s) aphasia

Answer 8

Can answer yes and no answers and follow commands

• frustrating for patient as they can express what they want to say even via writing
• impaired verbal and graphic expression

Question 9

Primary language pathway

Answer 9

1. Language via visual or auditory cortex goes to Wernicke’s (posterior temporal lobe)
2. Wernike’s to Broca’s (posterior inferior frontal lobe via arcuate fasciculus
3. Broca’s to the motor cortex for voluntary muscles needed to speak

Question 10

Inferior parietal lobule

Answer 10

Angular and supramarginal gyri

• aka GESCHWIND’s TERRITORY
• important for classifying and labeling things which is how we are able to think abstractly and form concepts
• most commonly left side of brain

Question 11

Stroop test

Answer 11

We read everything we see, its innate once we can read

• if the color of the word is different than the word states say blue letters are green it causes incongruent which slows speach
• Reading on left side of brain and color on right, you have to override left to say the color of the letter rather than reading the word

Question 12

Left brain function

Answer 12

Right visual field 
positive emotions
gramma and syntax
writing 
speech

Question 13

Right Brain function

Answer 13

Left visual field
recognition of emotion
negative emotions 
prosody
spatial abilities 
rudimentary speech

Question 14

Pathway for note taking

Answer 14

1. Primary auditory or visual pathway
2. Geschwind’s territory- assign symbol
3. Wernicke’s
4. Arcuate fasiculus
5. Broca’s- emotional meaning from non-dominant side
6. motor cortex
7. alpha-motor neuron in spinal cord to BG and cerebellum