Aphasia

Non-Fluent, Fluent, and Subcortical

What is a **semantic paraphasia**?

A substitution of one word for another that may be **related**.

Example: “Marker” for pencil.

What is a **phonemic/literal paraphasia**?

Errors at the sound level; phonemes in the intended word are substituted, omitted, or transposed.

Example: “Tup” for cup.

What is a **neologistic paraphasia**?

Nonwords that a person creates. They are unintelligible/unrelated to the intended word.

Example: “Skeen” for pencil.

What is **perseveration**?

A word that is repeated inappropriately instead of an intended word.

What is **logorrhea**?

Excessive and inappropriate production of speech that is often meaningless.

What is **empty speech**?

Substitution of general words (*This, that, stuff*) for more specific words.

What is **agrammatic speech**?

“*Telegraphic speech*”; omission of grammatical features in speech. Speech consists mostly of content words (Nouns, verbs) instead of function words (Articles, conjunctions).

What is **anomia**?

Word finding difficulties or naming difficulties.

What is **circumlocution**?

Producing nonspecific words often due to word finding problems; “Beating around the bush”.

**Broca’s** Aphasia and **Conduction** Aphasia both have ___ comprehension and ___ repetition.

Good comprehension

Poor repetition

**Transcortical Motor** Aphasia and **Anomic** Aphasia both have ___ comprehension and ___ repetition.

Good comprehension

Good repetition

**Mixed Transcortical** Aphasia and **Transcortical Sensory** Aphasia both have ___ comprehension and ___ repetition.

Poor comprehension

Good repetition

**Global** Aphasia and **Wernicke’s** Aphasia both have ___ comprehension and ___ repetition.

Poor comprehension

Poor repetition

**Non-fluent** aphasias are generally caused by lesions in the ___ brain structures.

Anterior

**Fluent** aphasias are generally caused by lesions in the ___ brain structures.

Posterior

This type of aphasia experiences **extreme frustration/emotional reactions** to their aphasia:

Broca’s Aphasia

This type of aphasia is similar to Broca’s Aphasia but has good repetition skills:

Transcortical Motor Aphasia

This type of aphasia is similar to Global Aphasia but has good repetition skills:

Mixed Transcortical Aphasia

This is the ***most severe*** form of non-fluent aphasia who experiences a lot of difficulty with communication:

Global Aphasia

If you add the symptoms from Broca’s Aphasia and Wernicke’s Aphasia, you may get the symptoms associated with this type of aphasia:

Global Aphasia

This aphasia has associated **anosognosia**: The inability to recognize and acknowledge deficits.

Wernicke’s Aphasia

This type of aphasia is similar to Wernicke’s aphasia but has good repetition skills:

Transcortical Sensory Aphasia

This type of aphasia is similar to Wernicke’s aphasia but has good comprehension skills:

Conduction Aphasia

What is considered the **mildest** form of aphasia, where most language functions, except for naming, are relatively unimpaired?

Anomic Aphasia