Introduction to CSD
What is a neurogenic communication disorder?
1) Difficulty in formulation or production of language; 2) difficulty in ability to derive meaning from language (2 answers)
What is expressive language deficit; receptive language deficit?
Name at least 3 causes of TBI
What are falls, motor vehicle accidents, sports injuries, military blasts, assaults, etc.?
The lack of awareness or denial of deficits
What is anosognosia?
Name at least 3 symptoms of dementia
What are memory loss, depression, disorientation, confusion, difficulty speaking or swallowing, etc.?
The two main divisions of language
What are expressive and receptive language?
An error in speech which the word is discernible but errors are at the sound level
What is a phonemic paraphasia?
What is chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)?
Name 3 main characteristics of RHD
What are left neglect, attention deficits, anosognosia, memory, problem solving, social communication/pragmatic deficits, non-linguistic communication deficits?
Term for drug induced dementia
What is polypharmacy?
_____ is ability to respond to environment/stimuli and _____ is the ability to know where you are, why you're there, and what point in time it is
What is arousal and orientation?
A substitution of a word that is related to meaning of intended word
What is a semantic paraphasia?
Raised level of pressure within the skull above the normal and healthy level
Increased intracranial pressure
The definition of prosopagnosia
What is inability to recognize or identify faces
Progressive, irreversible neurological disorder and the most common cause of dementia
What is Alzheimer's disease?
High level cognitive abilities to employ lower level cognitive functions to achieve goals
What is executive functioning?
Name at least 3 subtypes of aphasia
What is Broca's, Wernicke's, Global, Conduction, Transcortical Sensory/Motor, Anomic aphasia?
A gunshot wound, stabbing, or other impailment would be considered this type of injury
What is an open/penetrating head injury?
Inability to attend to one side of body
What is family education, set up environment for success, improve patient's quality of life?
The left hemisphere is responsible for _____ and the right hemisphere is responsible for ______?
What is the window for spontaneous recovery post-stroke?
What is at least 6 months?
A pattern of brain damage that occurs when, as a result of external forces, the brain bounces back and forth inside skull, causing diffuse damage
What is visual anchor (highlighted margin) or edging (with baking sheet)?
Treatment approach used to recall past events, people, and other memories using photo books, music, video or audio recording, smells, etc.