Week 8: More About Aphasia

Question 1

Aphasia lesions?

Answer 1

Vascular lesions (or strokes) usually result in focal damage,
i.e., there is a clear boundary to the area of
structural brain injury

Question 2

primary progressive aphasias (PPA)?

Answer 2

-gradual onset
-worsen with time
-eventually functions other than language effected
-form of dementia

Question 3

All other(non PPA) Aphasia types?

Answer 3

-sudden onset
- symptoms stay same or improve
- aphasia is not dementia

Question 4

Jargon Aphasia?

Answer 4

• type of fluent aphasia in which an individual’s speech is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to the individual
  -severe form of Wernicke’s aphasia with rapid verbal output, abundant paraphasic substitutions, and incomprehensible verbalization