The Brain
An organ that lives inside the skull.
What is the brain?
Occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain either bursts, ruptures, or is blocked by a clot.
What is a stroke?
Fluent Aphasia, but words may not make sense. Impaired comprehension. Often Unaware of their errors.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
An umbrella term for a disorder that affects various aspects of cognition, such as memory, language, or learning, due to the death of neurons in the brain.
What is dementia?
The medical term for difficulty swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
The principle that the brain can change, even in adulthood, based on experience.
What is neuroplasticity?
A language impairment that is due to an injury to the left side of the brain.
What is aphasia?
Non-fluent Aphasia, with effortful, slow speech, where comprehension remains intact.
What is Broca's Aphasia?
time, place, and person
What is orientation?
The type of dysphagia that occurs when there is difficulty preparing the food in the mouth for the swallow.
What is oral dysphagia?
Nerve fibers that join the brain's hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
Fluency, Language Comprehension, Naming
What are the three primary ways to describe Aphasia?
Severe Aphasia affecting both expression and comprehension usually occurs after large strokes or major brain damage.
What is Global Aphasia?
The Most Common Dementia
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
It covers the trachea, allowing food to flow into the esophagus.
What is the epiglottis?
The outermost layer of the cerebrum.
What is the cerebral cortex?
Substitution or transposition of the targeted phoneme - For example, saying"slip" for "lips"
What is a phonemic paraphasia?
An evidence-based treatment that uses singing to enhance expressive language.
What is Melodic Intonation Therapy?
It causes loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles.
What is ALS?
Rings of muscles at the top and bottom ends of the esophagus.
What are sphincters?
Another name for the brain stem.
What is the medulla?
Fluent Aphasia with word-finding difficulties and intact comprehension.
What is Anomic Aphasia?
A rare form of Aphasia caused by a neurodegenerative disease that causes gradual decline in language abilities over time.
What is Primary Progressive Aphasia?
It It is caused by an excessive repetition of the CAG sequence in the gene.
What is Huntington's Disease?
A small camera is inserted into the patient’s nose to view the voice box and the top of the esophagus.
What is FEES?