Lobes
responsible for higher cognitive functions such as memory, emotions, impulse control, problem solving, social interaction, and motor function.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Located in frontal lobe of left hemisphere
What is Broca's Area?
loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage
What is Aphasia?
occurs when a blood clot blocks or narrows an artery leading to the brain.
What is an Ischemic Stroke?
a language specific disturbance arising after brain damage whose main symptom is the inability of retrieving known words.
What is Anomia?
involves sensation and perception and the other is concerned with integrating sensory input, primarily with the visual system.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing
What is the left hemisphere?
lesion, direct/indirect injury
What is how aphasia occurs?
occurs when blood clots block your blood vessels.
What is Thrombosis?
it is when a sound substitution or rearrangement is made, but the stated word still resembles the intended word
What is phonemic/literal aphasia?
centers around auditory stimuli, memory, and emotion
What is the Temporal Lobe?
responsible for some of the cognitive functions such as attention, processing of visual shapes and patterns, emotions, verbal ambiguity, and implied meanings
What is the Right Hemipshere?
People with this pattern of aphasia may understand what other people say better than they can speak. People with this pattern of aphasia struggle to get words out, speak in very short sentences and omit words.
What is Nonfluent Aphasia or Broca's Aphasia?
A blockage or plug that obstructs a blood 'vessel.
What is an embolism?
is when an entire word is substituted for the intended word.
What is Verbal/Semantic Paraphasia?
related to the perception and processing of visual information, as well as the organization of complex processes of visual perception.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
is mainly responsible for control of movements of the (opposite) side of the body.
What is Contralateral?
is a unique communication disorder that can cause a person to say phrases that sound fluent but lack meaning.
What is Fluent Aphasia or Wernicke's Aphasia?
What is an Aneurysm?
literally means “new word.” These invented words do not sound similar to the intended word. They also do not have any meaning in the user's language
What is Neologism?
processes that underlie flexible, goal-directed behavior
What is executive function?
On the same side, as opposed to contralateral. For example, a tumor involving the right side of the brain may affect vision ipsilaterally that is, in the right eye.
What is Ipsilateral?
Anomia, Paraphasias, Neologism, Agrammatism
What are communication problems with Aphasia?
sudden onset of a droopy face on one side, weakness of the arm or leg on one side of the body, inability to speak, and no time to waste in getting
What does FAST mean?
is characterized by difficulty controlling the muscles used for speech
What is Dysarthria?