Brain & Nervous System
What is the basic unit of the nervous system?
Neuron
What is the leading cause of aphasia?
Which aphasia is fluent but often nonsensical, with poor awareness?
Wernicke's Aphasia
Do we typically see a left and right-sided neglect with RHD?
Left
I present picture cards which Mr. Jones labels. This practice is referred to as _________ naming.
Confrontation
What are the three main parts of a neuron?
Cell body, axon, dendrites
What are the two broad types of aphasia?
Fluent and confluent
Which aphasia is slow, effortful, and agrammatic?
Which domain of language is most often impacted?
Pragmatic
This technique utilizes associations, categories, and features to assist with word retrieval of nouns.
The junction where signal pass between neurons is referred to as a s________
Synapse
Name one factor that influences recovery from aphasia
Age, severity, location of damage, general health, treatment, etc.
Which aphasia is characterized primarily by word-finding (naming) difficulty?
Anomic aphasia
Gradually increasing time intervals to improve memory recall is referred to as.... s_______ r_______
Spaced Retrieval
I ask Mrs. Smith to name as many animals as possible. This is referred to as ________ naming.
Generative
What are the four lobes of the brain?
Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital
What does the term aphasia mean? "Without _______"
Language
What are the two types of paraphasia (or substitutions)?
Semantic (word = cat for dog), phonemic (sound = tat for cat)
Preventing errors during learning by giving cues/prompts is referred to as e______ l_______
Errorless Learning
Tx for aphasia that improves word-finding and sentence production by strengthening the semantic connections between verbs and their related agents/patients
VNeST (Verb Network Strengthening Training)
Which hemisphere is dominant for language in most (roughly 98%) of people?
Left hemisphere
Name two language modalities that can be impacted by aphasia
Listening, speaking, reading, writing
Calling a book a "biffenpuffer" is what type of word errors? (Hint: start with "n")
Name one early language symptom of Alzheimer's Disease
Word-finding difficulty, off-topic comments, comprehension issues, etc.
Name at least two skills tested on the MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment)
Visiospatial/Executive Functioning Skills, Naming, Drawing, Memory, Attention, Language, Abstraction, Delayed Recall, Orientation