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