PSB 2000 Aphasias
Match the term with the appropriate phrase; 1. Alexia _________ a) micropolygyria 2. Anomia _________ b) damage to the left angular gyrus 3. Dyslexia _________ c) word-finding difficulties 4. Paraphasia _________ d) getting your "merds wixed up"
B C A D
Unusual groupings of cells in the outer layers of the cerebral cortex have been seen in postmortem studies of what?
Dyslexia
A large frontal lesion in the left hemisphere can produce ________ aphasia
Expressive (Broca's)
A patient who has difficulty speaking but has good comprehension of verbal material is most likely suffering from ______ aphasia
Expressive (Broca's)
Wernicke's aphasia is usually associated with lesions of what?
Left temporal lobe (Wernicke's area)
A patient who produces seemingly fluent but largely unintelligible speech and has poor comprehension of verbal material is most likely suffering from ___________ aphasia
Receptive (Wernicke's)
People with conduction aphasia are unable to do what?
Repeat words
The _______ hemisphere plays a major role in the perception of music. The _______ hemisphere plays a major role in prosody.
Right Right
A severe disturbance in reading is called _______
alexia