through spastic dysarthria Flashcards
motor speech disorder
affects motor control of speech neurologically (not musculoskeletal): dysarthria and apraxia
dysarthria
abnormalities in parameters of speech mechanism (respiratory, laryngeal, nasal, oral tract, articulators)–execution, movement disorder
apraxia
planning/programming impairment
dysarthria types (Mayo clinic)
flaccid + spastic (brainstem: F: brainstem MN or nerves to muscles; S:fiber tracts between cortex and MN); ataxic (cerebellum); hypokinetic, hyperkinetic (basal ganglia); mixed (Duffy adds unilateral UMN)
gold standard of dysarthria classification
DAB perceptual (clustering)
cortical areas for planning and programming speech
primary motor cortex, lateral premotor cortex, supplementary motor cortex, Broca’s, parietal lobe of dom. hemisphere, right hem.
control/monitoring circuits for speech
cerebellum (coordination, tone, sequencing, motor learning, adjustment) and basal ganglia (posture, tone, inhibitory, coordination, planning/executing/refining/regulating movement)
direct activation pathways (pyramidal)
corticospinal, corticobulbar (support skilled movement; alpha MN)
indirect activation pathways (extrapyramidal)
corticoreticular (reflex, posture, tone, subsconscious, facilitate pyramidal; support skilled movement, gamma MN)
peripheral pathways
final common pathway: LMN of cranial and spinal nerves (damage leads to weakness, paralysis, fasciculations, fibrillations)
motor end plate
specialized post-synaptic area in neuromuscular junction of PNS important for activating muscle
bundles of axons travel together in ___ and ___
tracts (CNS–synapse with other neurons); nerves (PNS–nerves transmitting to muscles or from sensory organs)
cell body, axon, synapse diseases associated with dysarthria
ALS; MS/Guillain Barre; myasthenia gravis
cortical motor areas
prim. motor cortex; supp. motor area; premotor area; Broca’s; left insula; right insula
cortical sensory areas
prim. sensory, visual, auditory cortices
cerebellar damage
hypotonia, intention tremor, dysmetria, decomposition of movement, ataxia
basal ganglia damage
hypokinesia (Parkinson’s), muscle rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia
important cranial and (spinal) nerves for speech
V, VII, X, XII + IX/XI with X, (respiration)