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speech aphasia Filly Flashcards

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behavioral neurology

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structural brain damage that alters behavior

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neuropsychiatry

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psychiatrists pretending to be neurologists.

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Which professor looks like Hannibal Lecter?

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Filley

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hearing, seeing, speaking, and generating words originate in which brain regions?

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Hearing: Wernikies
Speaking: Motor cortex - lateral precentral gyrus, bsal ganglia, cerebellum corticobulbar tracts
Generating: Brocca’s
Seeing: visual cortex, occipital lobe

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arousal and attention

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level of consciousness, digit span, serial sevens

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Memory

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orientation, 3 words at 5 min, remote events

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language

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fluency, comprehension

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visuospatial function

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clock drawing, hemineglect test

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mood and affect

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inquiries about feelings, observation of affect

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complex cognition

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executive function

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acute confusion

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a common and usually reversible disorder of attention known as delerium

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amnesia

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imapared recent memort, deficient new learning

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aphasia

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an acquired disorder of language

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apraxia

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disorder of motor skills, coordination.

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visuospatial impairment

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cant find car, cant dress them selves

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hemineglect

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failure to attend to one side of the body

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personality change

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a departure from normal temperament or character

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dementia

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multiple neurobehavioral syndromes - amnesia, aphasia, personality change

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does Dr. Filley think psychiatry is a valid profession

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no

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Is Filley proud of his book?

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yes

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how is language organized in the brain?

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as distinct neural networks and regions that tend to process specific components of language

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if someone has a distorted thought process which leads to incoherent language, do they have aphasia?

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Nope, they have a thought disorder (ie schizophrenia)

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dysarthria

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slurred speach (think motor disorder of speech)

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dysphnia

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disorder of voice related to laryngeal disease

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mutism

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severe aphasia, can be psychiatric or physical

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cerebral dominance

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one side of the brain tends to dominate one function, specifically language.
Language- left
math, reading - left
attention - right
emotion- right
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handedness

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dominant hand side, right handed people are left dominant for language.

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sinistrals

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left handed people, are also left brain dominant for language

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spontaneous speech

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nonfluency, characterized by labored, effortful speech

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auditory comprehension

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poor comprehension is defined by performing verbal commands

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repetition

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helpful for localization

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naming

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what is this? its a pen - correctly identifying common objects

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broca’s aphasia

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nonfluent speech, damage to left inferior frontal lobe

effortful, nonfluent speech.

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werniche’s aphasia

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fluent, paraphasic speech with poor comprehension. often rapid.

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paraphsias

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three types:
literal - pipe becomes hike
verbal -
neologism -

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conduction aphasia

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in the white matter between brocs and wernikes area

in the arcuate fasciulus

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global aphasia

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entire language center is effected

no language function remains

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alexia

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acquired reading disorder

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dyslexia

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reading disorder despite adequate opportunity and training

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agraphis

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acquired writing disorder

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sign-language aphasia

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its a real thing - deaf people with strokes

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autonomic speech

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expletives, angry outbursts

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prosody

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the inflection of speech with emotion

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music

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subserved by the right hemisphere

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humor

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right frontal lobe has been implicated

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metaphor

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subserved by the right hemisphere

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localization of nouns and verbs

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mediated in pert by right hemisphere

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treatment of aphasia

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First line is treat cause/ lesion. most improvement happens in the first year. no drugs currently available.

Speech/language therapy, psychiatric care is helpful, help adapting to disability.

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recovery

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look it up

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