Speech Flashcards
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Standardized Mental Status Exam
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-not sufficient for diagnosis in absence of other info
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Amnesia
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-impaired recent memory, with deficient new learning
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Aphasia
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-an acquired disorder of language caused by brain damage
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Apraxia
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-impairment of learned movement
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Agnosia
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-impaired visual, auditory, or tactile recognition
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Disarthria
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-disorder of speech due to motor system involvement
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Dysphonia
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-disorder of voice related to laryngeal disease
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Cerebral Dominace
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- 99% of dextrals (right handers) are left dominant for language
- 67% of left handers are ALSO left dominant for language
- ambidextrous people may have mixed language dominance
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Aphasia Examination
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Spontaneous Speech- nonfluency is characterized by labored, effortful speech and
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Broca’s Aphasia
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- spontaneous speech: nonfluent
- comprehension: good
- repetition: poor
- naming: poor
- characterized by nonfluent, effortful speech with relatively preserved auditory comprehension
- speech is telegraphic and agrammatic
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Wernicke’s Area
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-responsible for auditory comprehension
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Wernicke’s Aphasia
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- spontaneous speech: fluent
- comprehension: poor
- repetition: poor
- naming: poor
- characterized by fluent, paraphasic speech with poor auditory comprehension
- speech may be very rapid (logorrhea)
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Paraphasias
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- literal (pipe becomes hike)
- verbal (wife becomes mother)
- neologism (new and meaningless word)
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Conduction Aphasia
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- spontaneous speech: fluent
- comprehension: good
- repetition: poor
- naming: poor
- involves damage to arcuate fasciculus
- repetition deficit is salient feature
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Global Aphasia
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- spontaneous speech: nonfluent
- comprehension: poor
- repetition: poor
- naming: poor
- destruction of the entire perisylvian language zone
- no language function
