OT 6000- Test 5- Ch 29

Question 1

Temporoparietal area of brain

Answer 1

• Area of cognitive intelligence; convergent thinking (consider all possibilities to a question or problem)
• area for communication (especially oral)
• area for directing attention and comprehending space relations

Question 2

Cortical areas associated with language for 95% of adults

Answer 2

• Understanding language and producing speech= left hemisphere
• Understanding and producing paraverbal and nonverbal aspects of speech= right hemisphere

Question 3

Wernicke’s area

Answer 3

Area in brain for understanding speech and language

Question 4

Broca’s area

Answer 4

Area of brain that creates motor plan for speech

Question 5

Paraverbal areas of brain

Answer 5

• The area analagous to Wenicke’s area= decodes speech and helps to interpret intent
• The area analagous to Broca’s area= interprets inflections of speech

Question 6

Language disorders

Answer 6

• Aphasia: impaired spoken language (both comprehension and speech)
• Alexia: impaired comprehension of written language
• Agraphia: impaired ability to write

Question 7

Wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 7

Damage to Left temporal lobe in 95% of patient

• Receptive aphasia- issues recieving language
• fluent in speech, but little sense is made from words
• paraphrasia- talk around something via descriptions

Question 8

Broca’s aphasia

Answer 8

Impaired language expression

• nonfluent: cannot think of words of phrases so many pauses in speech
• expressive aphasia
• writing also impaired

Question 9

Global aphasia

Answer 9

Inability to use language in any form (spoken, written, reading, comprehension)

Question 10

Damage to area analagous to Wernicke’s area

Answer 10

Difficulty interpreting paraverbal and nonverbal aspects of communication (voice pitch, volume, etc.)

Question 11

Damage to area analagous to Broca’s area

Answer 11

Difficulty creating paraverbal and nonverbal aspects of speech
-produces a flat affect: no melody in speech

Question 12

Personal neglect vs anosognosia

Answer 12

• Personal neglect: lack of attention to one side of the body
• Anosognosia: deny deficits on impaired side completely. May even deny that affected limb is theirs.

Question 13

Spatial Neglect difficulties

Answer 13

• Dressing (dressing apraxia)
• Contruction (R parietal temporal issues)
• Navigation- cannot imagine how world is structured or organized around self (usually pts with L hemiparesis)