Aphasia
Aphasia #2
Anomia
Anomia #2
Anomia #3
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An acquired disorder of language including reading and writing.
What is aphasia?
100
Broken, slow, hesitant, single-worded speech with many missing words.
What are the symptoms of Broca's aphasia?
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Anomia
If someone is unable to retrieve single words in the process of speaking, they may have...?
100
Less specific because there are so many variations.
What is a verb?
100
Posterior portion of the second temporal gyrus damage
Where is damage for word selection anomia?
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Sylvian fissure
What is equal to the lateral sulcus?
200
Absence of grammar, can't understand sentences with conjections in them e.g. and, nor, for, yet etc. and apostrophes e.g. brother's
What is agrammatism?
200
You can't remember sequence of words given to you.
What is conduction aphasia a.k.a dissociative aphasia?
200
Between two different hemispheres
What is commisures?
200
Word selection anomia
If you have great difficulty in naming objects you are shown?
300
Broca's area
What area is responsible for speech production?
300
Fluent speech like normal people, but they cannot comprehend us and we cannot comprehend them.
What characterizes someone with Wernicke's aphasia?
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Nouns, then verbs, then adjectives in terms of difficulty.
What are the hardest parts of speech to remember for someone with anomia?
300
Inside same hemisphere
What is fasciculi?
300
Cannot select an object that is even named by the examiner and can't be helped by clues
What is semantic anomia?
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Front of pre-central gyrus
Where is Broca's area?
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Damage to the axons between Broca and Wernicke's area.
What causes conduction aphasia and dissociative aphasia?
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May have more difficulty in the second language than the first.
What is bilingualism?
400
Frontal and parietal lobe, inferior part for both lobes
Where is the damage for word production anomia?
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Damage to parietal lobes angular gyrus
What causes semantic anomia?
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Language comprehension
What does Wernicke's area affect?
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Posterior part of superior temporal gyrus
Where is Wernicke's area?
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Very specific and non-redundant, so they are stored in one place of the brain.
What is a noun?
500
deal with similar sounds
What is phonemic paraphasias?
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All left hemisphere
Where damage that causes language anomia?
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