Aphasia Midterm

Fluent aphasia

Clear but no meaning

Non-fluent aphasia

Not clear but more meaning; slow takes lots of effort

Non-fluent

Broca'S

Fluent

Wernicke'S

Wernicke'S trick

"Words flow

Broca'S hack

Broken speech

Two parts of frontal lobe

Motor and prefrontal corticies

Motor cortice

Motor planning (voluntary control)

Prefrontal corticies

Executive functioning, decision making, regulates emotions

Part of parietal lobe

Somato sensory cortex

Function of parietal lobe

Perceptions pain, temperature, touch, spatial awareness

Parts of temporal lobe

Auditory & hippocampus

Auditory cortex

Process auditory info, wernicke'S (language comp)

Hippocampus

New memories, spatial navigation

Part of occipital lobe

Visual cortex

Occipital lobe function

Visual, visual perception

Main cerebrovascular arteries

1. Anterior middle, posterior artery

Cognition

Acquiring, storing retrieving I using knowledge

Memory

Info is encoded, stored and retrieved

Attention

Focusing mental resources on specific stimusi or tasks while filtering out irrelevant information

Executive function

Cognitive processes S mental skills that are responsible for managing and controlling various aspects of cognition towards a goal

Non fluent mnemonic

Broca. Gets the message

Non fluent types

Brooks, global, transcortical mixed, transcortical motor

Fluent mnemonic

We can talk so awesome

Fluent types

Wernicke'S conduction , transcortical sensory, atomic

Verbal akinesia

Difficulty starting voluntary speech

What aphasia has verbal akinesia?

Transcontical motor aphasia

Agrammatism

Leaves out grammatical elements

Telegraphic speech

Use essential words

Dysarthria

Dysfunction of muscles

Apraxia

Motor planning ( cat becomes gat /

What can coexist w/ aphasia?

AOS

Paragrammatism

Grammar there but used incorrectly

Paragramatism example

The boy are walking to the store yesterday

Logorrhea

Lots of words from talking aka excessive output

Empty speech

Using vague words instead of specific words

Semantic paraphasia

Meaning related word substitution lex. Watch for clock)

Neologisms

Unrecognizable words

Treat of underlying forms is therapy for what?

Broca'S aphasia

TUF treatment targets what?

Improve individuals with brocas aphasia build sentence comprehension and production

What do you ask PWA in TUF?

-Point to agent, theme, action

-Read sentence

-expand sentence (add more)

-show how grammatical elements didn’t change

What is VNeST treatment?

Verb Network Strengthening treatment

What does VNest target?

Activating verb networks to improve sentence and conversation production

Reason behind VNeST?

using verb will promote words connect to those verb which then helps person retrieve words, production complete and accurate sentences

What is the main issue with transcortical motor aphasia?

Cannot get words out (verbal akinesia)

Where does transcortical motor aphasia occur in comparison to brocas?

Anterior or superior to Broca’s area

What areas are involved in transcortical motor aphasia?

Supplementary motor area or anterior I cingulate region (ACA watershed)

Motto for transcortical motor aphasia

I know what I want to say. I understand you. I just can’t get it out.

Motto for Transcortical sensory aphasia

“I can’t understand what you’re saying, but I can repeat it back perfectly”

Where does TSA occur in comparison to Wernickes ?

Posterior to wernickes

What is preserved in TSA?

Repetition

What can occur in TSA speech?

May contain semantic paraphasias, circumlocutions and echolalia

Wernicke’s motto

I can say a lot of words, but they may not make sense. I don’t always understand what you’re saying.

What is good in WA?

Speech is normal with rate and rhythmin

What is impaired in Wernickes

-auditory comprehension

-repetition

-awareness of errors

Motto for anomic aphasia

I know what it is … I just can’t find the right word

Anomic aphasia impairs what

Naming is the issue

Where does anomic aphasia damage?

It damages language network affecting lexical retrieveral (word finding)

Conduction aphasia motto

I can talk about. I just can’t repeat it

What is impaired in conductive aphasia?

Repetition

Repetition conduction

Phonological short-term retention

Reproduction conduction

Phonological assembly/output in coding

What is PCA?

phonological component analysis

What does PCA do?

It targets activate word information through sound feature retrieval with support as needed

What type is PSA best for ?

Anomic aphasia

BASA

BASA is presented as a severe-aphasia assessment emphasizing spared abilities and useful response modalities.

Individualized bedside probes supplement it; follow its actual manual rather than inconsistent slide timing.