________ literally means "without language" and is caused by damage to the __________ hemisphere of the brain.
What is aphasia and left hemisphere
100
Taking notes, making shopping lists, entering appointments into a diary or calendar.
What are examples of external memory aids
100
Type of aphasia with speech characterized by semantic and phonemic paraphasias, with good comprehension and poor speech repetition.
What is conduction aphasia
100
Difficulty retrieving words.
What is anomia
100
Neglect, inattention and denial are three major characteristics of this disorder.
What is right hemisphere damage.
200
It is estimated that this many Americans have aphasia and yet most people have never heard of it.
What is 2 million
200
A patient hears someone say that they are about to "hit the ceiling", he assumes that the person is really about to begin striking the ceiling.
What is not understanding figurative language.
200
Damage to posterior portion of left temporal lobe resulting in poor auditory and visual comprehension, and empty speech consisting of neologisms.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia
200
Failure to recognize one's own illness.
What is anosognosia
200
Affects orientation, memory, attention, reasoning, problem solving, and executive functioning. Pragmatics is the most disturbed language area
What is TBI
300
The most common cause of aphasia.
What is stroke
300
_____ injury occurs in a specific location of the brain, where as a _____ injury occurs over a more widespread area.
What is focal and diffuse.
300
Characterized by severe naming difficulties in both speech and writing, mild to moderate comprehension problems
What is Anomic aphasia
300
Paralysis of one side of the body.
What is hemiplegia
300
Group of pathological conditions and syndromes characterized by intellectual decline due to neurological causes which have a progressive nature.
What is Dementia
400
A person with aphasia may have difficulty retrieving words or names, but _________ is still basically intact.
What is intelligence
400
Where Jay is currently employed.
What is City Market
400
Examples of fluent aphasia
What is Wernicke's, conduction and anomic aphasia
400
Characteristic of a person with non-fluent aphasia where speech is mainly content words and lacking function words.
What is agrammatism
400
Symptom(s) of TBI that may take time to evolve
What is PTSD, anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation
500
Aphasia is generally considered to be a disorder that results after language skills have developed which means that it is not congenital but___________
What is acquired.
500
Because sometimes people who cannot speak can sing.
What is two acts are controlled by different parts of the brain?
500
Nonfluent aphasia resulting in short sentences, labored, telegraphic speech, articulation and phonological errors, and auditory comprehension abilities that are better than production abilities
What is Broca's Aphasia
500
Inattention, or lack of awareness to information coming from the left side of the body.
What is left side neglect
500
Alzheimers patients show extensive damage to this particular structure first.