study guide

Question 1

what are the 5 fluent aphasias

Answer 1

Wernicke's
conduction
transcortical sensory
anomic
pure word deafness

Question 2

what are the 3 nonfluent aphasias?

Answer 2

Broca's
global
transcortical motor (echolalic)

Question 3

describe how agrammatisim is related to Broca’s speech production and comprehension.

Answer 3

tendency to omit function words in production and hear them in comprehension.

Question 4

what is agammatism?

Answer 4

not speaking sequentially

Question 5

what is paraphasia?

Answer 5

production of unintended words or sounds

Question 6

The verbal output of Wenicke’s patients are described as

Answer 6

paraphasic

Question 7

how is brain organization affected by age of acquisition and language competency?

Answer 7

more overlap

Question 8

how is dementia different than normal aging?

Answer 8

dementia is used to describe a group of diseases/symptoms

Question 9

What type of aphasia is fluent, grammatical, with some semantic paraphadias?

Answer 9

Sensory

Question 10

What type of aphasia is fluent, with frequent phonemic paraphasia?

Answer 10

Conduction

Question 11

What type of aphasia has no major deficits with comprehension?

Answer 11

Motor

Question 12

What type of aphasia had good comprehension but difficulties with some syntactic constructions?

Answer 12

Broca

Question 13

What type of aphasia has very poor comprehension?

Answer 13

Global

Question 14

What type of aphasia has no major deficits with comprehension?

Answer 14

Anomia

Question 15

Where is brain damage when the result is brocas aphasia?

Answer 15

Broca’s area plus surrounding areas in frontal lobe

Question 16

If a patient has bilateral superior temporal damage what is the result?

Answer 16

Word deafness aphasia

Question 17

What type Of aphasia is predominately phonemic paraphasia?

Answer 17

Conduction

Question 18

Which type of aphasia?
Transient disorder
Lesions are posterior to ones that cause wernickes
Phonemic processes are largely intact

Answer 18

Transcortical sensory

Question 19

A 2nd language learned in college will involve some different brain regions than a language acquired from birth. T/f

Answer 19

T

Question 20

Language impairments due to tbi are more obvious than aphasia . T/f

Answer 20

F

Question 21

Language impairment due to tbi is like a mild form Of aphasia. T/f

Answer 21

F

Question 22

Language impairment due to tbi is a result of right hemisphere damage. T/f

Answer 22

F

Question 23

What is the most predictable characteristic of tbi?

Answer 23

Change in cognitive abilities over time

Question 24

in order to be diagnosed with dementia, which symptom must be present?

Answer 24

short term memory loss

Question 25

why are symptoms of FTD and Alzheimer’s different?

Answer 25

FTD=atrophy in frontal and temporal lobes

Alz= atrophy all over brain.

Question 26

where is damage to the brain with FTD?

Answer 26

frontal and temporal lobes

Question 27

where is damage to the brain with logopenic variety of PPA?

Answer 27

posterior temporal

Question 28

where is damage to the brain with non-fluent PPA?

Answer 28

frontal lobe

Question 29

if a patient has split brain surgery and the corpus callosum is split how does processing take place?

Answer 29

the left and right hemispheres work independently

Question 30

which hemisphere is in charge of facial recognition?

Answer 30

right

Question 31

right hemisphere damage will lead to visuospatial deficits such as (2)

Answer 31

prosopagnosia

difficulty finding their way around, especially in new areas.