History
The ONLY word Paul Broca's stroke patient could recognize
What is tan?
Normal vocal effluxion but use words that lack meaning
What is fluent aphasia?
Permits areas surrounding brain lesions to take over some functions during the recovery process
What is Brain Plasticity?
Impairs the ability to comprehend language
What is damage to Wernicke's area?
Researcher best known for his discovery of a lesion in an area name after his last name
What is Paul Broca?
Switching related words
What is Paraphrasia?
Responsible for naming objects and coordinating the muscles involved in speech
What is Broca's Area?
What is fMRI?
The year physician Paul Broca studied the brain's connection to language
What is 1861?
Whats is non-fluent aphasia?
Part of the brain that governs language
What is left hemisphere?
Language improvement in stroke patients with aphasia may be achieved through this
What is speech therapy?
Hemisphere where Broca discovered the lesion in his patient that now is called Broca's area.
What is left?
Damage to Broca's area or Wernicke's area leads to this
What is aphasia?
What is motor cortex?
Not caused by stroke of brain injury. A type of dementia.
What is primary progressive aphasia?
Wernicke's area is near this
What is auditory cortex?
The delicate web of language web in your brain is damaged by stroke, illness or trauma
What is loss for words?
Near auditory Cortex. This is where the brain attached meaning to speech sounds.
What is Wernicke's Area?
The fraction of stroke survivors that suffer from aphasia
What is 1/3?