Intro to Neurological Communication Disorders
The setting where SLPs see patients for the shortest duration.
What is an acute care setting/hospital
The area that houses our highest and most complex cognitive functions
What is the cerebrum
The ability to recall specific and recent events
What is episodic memory
These constitute the two gross divisions of language
receptive and expressive
An etiology that is unknown is termed
What is idiopathic
SLPs may read the following scan to determine where in the cerebral cortex an injury has occurred.
What is an MRI
The middle layer of the cerebral meninges
What is the arachnoid mater
The ability to hold attention on a stimulus while ignoring competing stimuli
What is selective attention
The hemisphere that processes emotion, facial expressions, body language, and prosody of speech
What is the right hemisphere
A general term for an acute infection and/or inflammation of the brain or spinal cord
What is encephalitis
Theses 3 areas of cognition may see decline in normal aging.
What are short-term memory, episodic memory, and selective attention
The area of the brain that houses Broca's area
The frontal lobe
The ability to respond to stimuli
What is arousal
When a person has a stroke that results in a language deficit, it is important that they are told what important information?
A loss of language is not a loss of intellect.
The term that describes a state of constant seizure
What is epilepticus
These 3 areas of language may see decline in healthy aging
What are word-finding, processing of verbal language and reading.
The area that helps initiate movement, maintain muscle tone, and inhibit extraneous movements
What is the basal ganglia
High level systems that include attention, memory, planning, problems solving, initiating, etc.
What are executive functions.
The type of aphasia that is more common than others to possibly have co-occurring apraxia of speech
What is Broca's aphasia
An infection that causes a rapid onset of dementia and movement disturbances
What is Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
The summary of all literature on a particular topic
What is a systematic review
The sensory relay station
What is the thalamus
The type of memory responsible for the retention of information for 30-seconds to a couple hours.
What is short-term memory
Fluent speech that lacks comprehensibility
What is Wernicke's aphasia/receptive aphasia
A benign tumor that is not removed can cause damage due to
What is mass effect