Acquired
What can result if speech area of the brain is damaged?
What is Dysarthria?
What else may be effected with an Acquired Language Disorder?
What is may also affect reading, writing and the use of gestures for expression?
Most common cause of aphasia
Several arteries supply brain
What is a stroke?
Sometimes brain artery bursts and blood leaks into brain tissue causing pressure buildup
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
Stroke Signs – “FAST”
What are
F - Face drooping
A - Arm weakness
S - Speech difficulty
T - Time to call 911
What can result of language portions of the brain are damaged?
What is Aphasia?
Is an acquired speech and language disorder a deterioration of intelligence?
What is it is not a deterioration in intelligence?
Usually brain artery is blocked and area it supplies is destroyed
What is ischemic stroke?
What is ischemic stroke?
What is when brain artery is blocked and area it supplies is destroyed?
What is Cerebral arteriosclerosis?
What is hardening of the cerebral arteries which restricts the flow of blood?
One acquired disorder area is disorders
of language…
What is Aphaisia?
True or False-
language associated with schizophrenic patients
What is false?
What blocks the artery?
What is
Plaque
Blood clot (thrombus or embolus)?
a sack-like bubble on the wall of a weak artery
What is an Aneurysm?
What are at least 3 other forms of brain damage?
What are:
traumatic brain injury
brain tumors
epilepsy
meningitis
encephalitis
brain surgery accidents/complications
What is an acquired disorder of language associated with injury to the brain?
What is not congenital (e.g. present at birth)?
Caused by a lesion to the left hemisphere of brain
What is how Aphasia occurs?
forms in the vein and blocks flow, clot at pt of origin
What is thrombosis?
What happens when an aneurysm ruptures?
What is a cerebral hemorrhage?
Lesion encompasses both frontal and temporoparietal lobes
Mixed – involves both comprehension and production but not severe
What is Mixed Aphasia?
What is the result of an aquired language disorder?
What is results in partial or complete impairment of language comprehension, formulation, and use for communication?
How can the barin injury occur directly? and indirectly?
What is gunshot or head injury?
What is blood supply cut off so that brain tissue dies, infection, or tumor growth?
travels until too large to pass (often a part of a thrombus that broke off)
What is an embolism?
List 5 risk factors for stroke
High blood pressure is the leading cause
Obesity
Smoking
Lack of exercise
Diabetes
Excessive alcohol consumption
Gum disease
High cholesterol
What is Global Aphasia?
What is
Lesion encompasses both frontal and temporoparietal lobes
Global – involves both comprehension and expression and most severe form