Overview Of Acquired Aphasia And Cog D/O Flashcards
Lesion in Broca’s area(BA 44, 45, inferoposterior portion of frontal lobe)
Broca’s Aphasia
deficit in formulating and processing syntax
Agrammatism
Broca’s Aphasia speech
Telegraphic speech: missing function words; mostly content words
problems with word finding
Anomia
Lesions in multiple areas: frontal, parietal, temporal areas receiving MCA blood supply
Global Aphasia
Communication is carried out largely through gesture, tone of voice, and facial expression
Global Aphasia
Transcortical Motor Lesion
Lesion in the anterior watershed area of left frontal lobe, extending to prefrontal areas (BA 6, 8, 9, 10 ,46)
Intact repetition compared with broca’s aphasia
Transcortical Motor
lesion of mixed transcortical
likely multifocal lesions in frontal and temporal watershed regions
Intact repetition compared with global aphasia
Mixed transcortical
WA lesion
Lesions in Wernicke’s area (BA 22, superior temporal lobe)
Signs of WA
● Fluent
● Neologisms: new words
● Paraphasias
● Relatively intact syntax than nonfluent aphasias
● Logorrhea
Transcortical sensory lesions
Lesion in angular gyrus/area surrounding the Wernicke’s area, excluding the Wernicke’s area itself (BA 39); and posterior portion of middle temporal gyrus (BA 37) [watershed regions of temporal lobe]
Intact repetition compared with Wernicke’s aphasia
Transcortical sensory
Conduction Aphasia lesion
Lesions in arcuate fasciculus (BA 40, within supramarginal gyrus)
Conduction Aphasia symptoms
● Impaired repetition (more di culty with longer and moe complex stimuli)
● Good comprehension and spontaneously production of spoken and written language
● Awareness of errors
● Common phonemic paraphasias
Lesion in angular gyrus
Anomic aphasia
Signs of anomic aphasia
● Comprehension and syntactic production
are relatively spread
● Circumlocutions, use of generic terms
Any form of aphasia due to damage to RH instead of LF in a person who is right-handed
Crossed Aphasia
Lesion below the cortex (thalamus, basal ganglia, cerebellum)
Subcortical Aphasia
● Frontal lobe is likely a ected during TBI
● Left and right orbital frontal lobe injury →
frontal lobe symptoms
FL syndrome