Language
Nonfluent output, adequate comprehension, poor sentence repetition
What is "Broca's aphasia"?
Last cortical area to fully develop
What is the frontal lobe?
The Year this original VA Boston building opened.
What is 1950?
Four of the transportation items from the CVLT-II Standard Form
What is train, subway, truck and motorcycle?
Block Design subtest, a breakage of 2x2 or 3x3 configuration is most likely with lesions of this cerebral hemisphere?
What is the right (non-dominant) hemisphere?
A comprehensive aphasia screening battery
What is the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Exam?
(will also accept Western Aphasia Battery)
This brain region includes purkinjee cells
What is the cerebellum?
Current Chief of Staff for VA Boston Healthcare System
Who is Michael Charness?
The number of holes in the Grooved Pegboard Test (Lafayette Instrument Version)
What is 25?
Refers to awareness of but lack concern for one’s own deficits (physical or cognitive)
What is anosdiaphoria?
The verbal output of “tephelone” instead of “telephone"
What is a phonemic paraphasia?
Brodmann’s areas that correlate to Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas
What is Brodmann's 44 and 22?
Vincent Ng
Who is the Medical Ctr Director?
In the Meyers and Meyers scoring system for the ROCF, the number assigned to the “bowling ball” feature
What is #11?
Lesion location producing alexia without agraphia
What is the splenium of the corpus callosum?
The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
What is prosody?
The other “Broca’s” region.
What is the Diagonal Band of Broca?
Three of the five CBOCs of VA Boston (community-based output clinics).
What is Quincy, Plymouth, Lowell, Causeway & Framingham?
The acronym that LOFT refers to
What is the Lexical Orthography Familiarity Test?
Incidence of right hemisphere language dominance in strongly left-handed.
What is 25-28%?
Specific aphasia associated with a lesion in the arcuate fasiculus (think disconnection syndrome)
What is conduction aphasia?
Term referring to white matter tracts crossing midline in the pons, medulla and brain stem.
What is a decussation?
Location of 'Correspondence" or medical records at JP campus?
What is the basement?
Primary author of JLO
Who is Arthur Benton?
(Hannay & Varney - coauthors)
Disorder where pt believes that people or objects have been replaced with identical looking people or objects.
What is Capgrass or reduplicative amnesia?