Quick aphasia Flashcards

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General impairments for Broca’s

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Oral expression (severe)
Repetition
Naming
Oral reading
Reading comprehension
Graphemic expression
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Lesion site for Broca’s

Blood supply

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Posterior-inferior frontal gyrus left hemisphere
Anterior language cortex
Lower part of promotor cortex
MCA

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Oral expression brocas

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Effortful
Limited word output
Agrammatic
Telegraphic
Minimal paraphasia
Content words
Devoid of article, conjunctions, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, inflections, grammatical morphemes
Pauses
Prolongations
Repetitions
Possible AOS
Monotone
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Transcortical motor site of lesion and blood supply

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Anterior superior frontal lobe
Watershed
Deep portions of the left frontal lobe
ACA

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General impairments TCM

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Oral expression
Naming (mild)
Oral reading
Grapheme expression

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Oral expression TCM

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Initially mute
Paraphasia
Agrammatic
Telegraphic
Limited word fluency
Echolalia
Reduced spontaneous speech
INTACT automatics
No AOS
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Quick Broca’s

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Nonfluent
Comprehension is a relative strength
Repetition is not a relative strength

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Quick TCM

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Nonfluent
Comprehension is a relative strength
Repetition is a relative strength

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Mixed Transcortical Aphasia/isolation

Site of lesion and blood supply

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Watershed
Arterial boarder zone outside the Sylvian fissure
MCA/ACA/PCA

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General impairments isolation

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Oral expression
Naming (marked difficulty, neologistic response)
Auditory comprehension severe
Oral reading severe
Reading comprehension severe
Grapheme expression severe
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Oral expression isolation

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Severely impaired
Agrammatic with paraphasia
Automatic, unintentional, involuntary nature of communication
Limited spontaneous speech
Echolalia 
Severe fluency impairment
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Quick mixed/isolation

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Nonfluent
Comprehension is NOT a relative strength
Repetition is a relative strength, Broca’s Wernicke’s and Arcuate Fasciculus are spared.

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Global site of lesion and blood supply

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Widespread damage
Fronto-tempero-parietal region
Entire perisylvian region affecting Broca’s/WERNICKE’s
MCA

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General impairments global

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All domains:
Oral expression severe
Repetition
Naming
Comprehension
Oral reading
Reading comprehension
Grapheme expression
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Oral expression global

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Minimal vocalizations
Speech extremely limited
Restricted fluency
Limited to a few words, exclamations, And serial utterances
May repeat CV combinations
Perseveration
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Quick global

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Nonfluent
Comprehension is NOT a relative strength
Repetition is NOt a relative strength
Presence of strong neurological symptoms: paresis, paralysis, sensory loss
ORAL and VERBAL apraxia
Left neglect is common

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Wernicke’s site of lesion and blood supply

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Posterior portion of superior temporal gyrus

Posterior branches L MCA

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General impairments Wernicke’s

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All domains:
Oral expression
Naming severe ( semantic and neologistic responses)
Repetition may correspond to degree of auditory comprehension
Auditory comprehension severely impaired
Oral reading
Reading comprehension
Grapheme expression
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Oral expression Wernicke’s

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Excessive  with paraphasias (semantic and literal/phonemic)
Empty speech
Paragrammatic
Cocktail party speech
Echolalic
Fluent
Rapid
Logorrhea
Retain grammatical words and omit content words ( this, that, thing)
Impaired conversational skills
No self-monitoring, feedback loop broken
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Quick Wernicke’s

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Fluent
Comprehension is NOT a relative strength
Repetition is NOT a relative strength
No deficit awareness or self monitoring
Normal prosody, artic, phrase length and grammatical forms
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Transcortical sensory site of lesion and blood supply

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Temproparietal region
Damage to posterior portion of middle temporal gyrus
Cortical regions of dominant hemisphere
Watershed areas of MCA

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General impairments TSA

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Oral expression
Naming (mild to severe) , literal paraphasias
Auditory comprehension
Reading comprehension
Grapheme expression
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Oral expression TSA

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Good with paraphasias (semantic and neologistic)
Echolalic
Empty speech
Fluent
Good artic, phrase length, prosody, syntax
Normal automatics once initiated
NO a grammatical or logorrhea

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Quick TSA

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Fluent
Comprehension is NOT a relative strength
Repetition is a relative strength
Oral reading is good

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Conduction Aphasia site of lesion

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Controversial
Arcuate Fasciculus
Supramarginal gyrus
Left parietal lobe

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General impairments conduction

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Oral expression
Repetition may use words in speech but cannot repeat them on command, disproportionately impaired compared to auditory comp
Naming (mild to severe)
Oral reading (paraphasias)
Grapheme expression
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Oral expression conduction

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Variable
Less fluent then Wernicke's
Self corrections
Anomia
Empty speech
Semantic paraphasia
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Quick conduction

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Fluent
Comprehension is a relative strength
Repetition is Not intact
Possible neurogenic stuttering

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Anomic aphasia site of lesion

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Variable

Possible angular gyrus or second temporal gyrus

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General impairments Anomic

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Naming- severely impaired
Circumlocutions
Pervasive and persistent word finding problems
Exceeds all other difficulties
More frontal lesions may be able to name with phonemic cue

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Oral expression Anomic

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Normal syntax and artic
Pauses
Verbal paraphasia
Fluent
Empty speech
Circumlocutions
Subs "this, that, thing"
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Quick Anomic

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Fluent
Intact comprehension
Intact repetition
Anomic syndrome
Greater success naming words that are:
Nouns
Short
High frequency
Personally meaningful
Used more in. Conversation
Sentence completion task