Week 3 PP-Aphasia Flashcards
What does the frontal lobe deal with?
Thinking, memory, behavior, and movement
What doe the temporal lobe do?
Deals with hearing, learning, and feelings
What does the brain stem do?
Deals with breathing, heart rate, and temperature
What does the parietal lobe deal with?
Language and touch
What does the cerebellum do?
Deals with balance and coordination
What are other causes of aphasia?
Brain tumors or other trauma to a certain part of the brain
What are traits of fluent aphasia?
5+ utterances, typical intonation, rate, and fluency, injury to the posterior parts of the left hemisphere causes this.
What are traits of non-fluent aphasia?
3-5 word utterances, slow, labored speech, site of lesion is in it near frontal lobe, very effortful expressive output
What are paraphasias?
Word substitutions
What does the PNS do?
Connects the CNS to the limbs and organs, essentially serving as a relay between the brain and spinal cord and the rest of the body
What is the left hemisphere dominant in for 98% of people?
Dominant for language and motor speech production.
What do the cerebrum and cerebellum have in common?
Both have right and left hemispheres
Where do the 12 cranial nerves come from?
They come from the brainstem
What is agrammatism?
Omission of grammatical elements
