Aphasia midterm

What are the four key elements of a definition of aphasia?

Acquired, neurological in nature, affects expressive and receptive language across modalities, not an intellectual disorder (or sensory or psychiatric)

number one cause of stroke

Atherosclerotic plaque

Clot-busting intervention is useful for what condition A. Neuronal death B. Hemorrhagic stroke C. Ischemic stroke D. Aphasia

C. Ischemic stroke

T/F A lesion in Brodmann's area number 22 is likely to result in Broca's aphasia.

F

T/F A person with Wernicke's aphasia is more likely to exhibit hemiparesis than a person with Broca's aphasia.

F

T/F Broca's aphasia is a motor speech disorder.

F

T/F Compared to a person with Broca's aphasia, a person with Wernicke's aphasia is more likely to have emotional lability.

F

T/F Compared to a person with Broca's aphasia, a person with Wernicke's aphasia is more likely to have hemiplegia.

F

T/F Compared to a person with Broca's aphasia, a person with Wernicke's aphasia is more likely to use telegraphic speech.

F

T/F Compared to a person with Wernicke's aphasia, a person with Broca's aphasia is more likely to use neologisms in conversation.

F

T/F Dysarthria is a neurogenic language disorder.

F

T/F Logorrhea is characteristic of patients with transcortical motor aphasia.

F

T/F People with fluent aphasia exhibit hemiparesis with much greater frequency than people with nonfluent aphasia.

F

T/F People with posterior (temporal lobe) lesions are more likely to demonstrate catastrophic reactions to stroke (including higher incidence of emotional lability and depression) than are patients with more anterior (frontal lobe) lesions.

F

T/F Symptoms of aphasia have been associated only with cortical, not subcortical, lesions.

F

T/F The term literal paraphasia is synonymous with the term semantic paraphasia.

F

T/F Wernicke's aphasia is characterized by telegraphic speech.

F

T/F Wernicke's aphasia is generally associated with lesions of the left angular gyrus.

F

T/F Although a person with conduction aphasia may not repeat well, he or she is likely to understand the semantic content of spoken items to be imitated.

T

T/F An individual's prognosis for language recovery following stoke or brain injury may be influenced by behavioral intervention, counseling, medication, nutrition, family support, enhanced awareness of deficits, relief of depression, and positive coping skills.

T

T/F Dyslexia may occur with or without agraphia.

T

T/F In general, people with conduction aphasia have better linguistic comprehension skills than do people with Wernicke's aphasia.

T

T/F In general, people with conduction aphasia produce more function words in spontaneous speech than people with Broca's aphasia.

T

T/F Individuals with conduction aphasia are usually aware of their linguistic deficits.

T

T/F Lack of awareness of deficits, and problems of self-monitoring, are more common in people with Wernicke's aphasia than in people with transcortical motor aphasia.

T

T/F People with Broca's aphasia typically have no deficits in linguistic comprehension.

T

T/F People with Wernicke's aphasia generally produce more neologisms than persons with Broca's aphasia, conduction aphasia, and transcortical motor aphasia.

T

T/F People with agrammatic aphasia often concomitantly demonstrate effortful groping articulation.

T

T/F Reading comprehension in people with conduction aphasia is generally good relative to oral reading performance.

T

T/F Telegraphic speech is generally associated with more anterior as opposed to posterior aphasia types.

T

T/F The diagnosis of anomia requires the ruling out of impaired naming due to sensory deficits.

T

T/F The substitution of "harp" for "violin" is an example of a verbal paraphasia.

T

T/F The substitution of "tegetable" for "vegetable" is an example of a literal paraphasia.

T

T/F Wernicke's aphasia is generally associated with lesions of the left superior temporal gyrus.

T

T/F: Hemorrhagic stroke have higher rates of mortality

True

T/F: Most occlusive strokes are thrombotic

True

What are acquired neurogenic cognitive-linguistic disorders?

a wide array of disorders of language formulation, comprehension, and cognitive processing caused by problems in the brain of a person who had previously acquired language

The right and left anterior cerebral arteries arise from the Circle of Willis as branches of the _______________________________ artery.

anterior communicating artery

____________________________________ is characterized by a person's inability to recognize sounds despite intact hearing ability.

auditory agnosia

The right and left posterior cerebral arteries arise from the Circle of Willis as branches of the _______________________________ artery,

basilar

The upper half of the visual field is represented below the ____________________ fissure of the contralateral visual cortex.

calcarine

The classic aphasia syndrome associated with large perisylvian lesions involving the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes is __________________________ aphasia.

global

The right and left middle cerebral arteries arise from the Circle of Willis as branches of the _______________________________ artery.

internal carotid

What is the definition of dyslexia?

reading disorder that may or may not be an actual language disorder per se

The primary distinguishing feature present in mixed transcortical aphasia but not in global aphasia is relatively intact _________________________ ability.

repetition

What is a stroke?

temporary or permanent disruption in blood supply to the brain

What is the definition of dysgraphia?

writing disorder