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Aphasia Characteristics
Aphasia Characteristics, Cont.
Types of Stroke
Vocabulary
Paraphasias
100
Fluency: Nonfluent Comprehension: Considered better Repetition: Impaired Naming: Impaired
What is Broca's Aphasia
100
Fluency: Fluent Comprehension: Impaired Repetition: Impaired Naming: Possibly intact
What is Pure Word Deafness
100
Associated with sudden loss of blood flow due to localized blockage in the arterial system - 88% of all strokes!
What is Ischemic Stroke
100
Lack of awareness of deficits; fail to self-monitor
What is anosognosia
100
"bloomton" for "bloomington" "mousetain" for "mountain" "papsel" for "apple" *conduction aphasia*
What is phonemic paraphasia
200
Fluency: Fluent Comprehension: Impaired Repetition: Impaired Naming: Impaired
What is Wernicke's Aphasia
200
Fluency: Non-Fluent Comprehension: Good Repetition: Remarkably intact Naming: Probably impaired
What is Transcortical Motor Aphasia
200
Clot builds up at a place along the arterial wall and can finally block the artery flow. Majority of strokes (61%). Often associated with Arteriosclerotic Disease.
What is Thrombosis (type of Ischemic Stroke)
200
Self correct, but often not successfully: Example: In attempt to say "apple" they say: bapple, apla, bapla
What is conduit d'approche
200
"dog" for "table" "singing" for "jogging"
What is Unrelated Verbal Paraphasia
300
Fluency: Fluent Comprehension: Good Repetition: Poor Naming: Less Impaired
What is Conduction Aphasia
300
Fluency: Non-Fluent Comprehension: Impaired/Poor Repetition: Good Naming: Poor
What is Mixed Transcortical Aphasia
300
A clot or tissue from elsewhere in body travels to brain and lodges in an artery, blocking bloodflow to tissue (24% of all strokes).
What is Embolism (type of Ischemic Stroke)
300
Watershed deficit that typically is due to prolonged time on heart/lung machine during surgery.
What is Gerstmann Syndrome
300
"chair" for "table" "nurse" for "doctor" substitution of a word that is semantically related to the target word
What is Semantic Paraphasia
400
Fluency: Nonfluent Comprehension: Impaired Repetition: Impaired Naming: Impaired
What is Global Aphasia
400
Fluency: Fluent Comprehension: Good Repetition: Good Naming: Impaired
What is Anomic Aphasia
400
Wall of artery bursts, causing lack of bloodflow to neurons (12% of strokes). Caused by hypertension, Aneurysm, Arteriovenous Malformations.
What is Hemorrhagic Stroke
400
Complex process involving operation of cognitive functions represented across multiple brain regions.
What is Theory of Lexical Processing
400
"chula" for "table" "tardis" for "forty" "wimber" for "quickly" involves use of nonsense word instead of target word
What is Neologisms
500
Fluency: Fluent Comprehension: Impaired Repetition: Remarkably intact Naming: Probably impaired
What is Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
500
Fluency: Non-Fluent Comprehension: Good Repetition: Impaired Naming: Good
What is Aphemia
500
Temporary loss of function possibly due to temporary blockages by small emboli. Less than 24 hours.
What is TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack)
500
What is Agrammatism vs. Paragrammatism?
Agrammatism: When patients produce short utterances of primarily content words and lack or use a restricted diversity of function words, aka telegraphic speech. (non-fluent) Paragrammatism: Describes speech that incorporates atypical syntax. Ex: substitute morphosyntactic elements.
500
Stringing together multiple paraphasias and/or neologisms that sound like nonsense.
What is Neologistic Jargon