Hearing
The speed of the vibrations of sound.
What is frequency - Hz
The system that controls our balance...AND..
This supervisor was running the Boston Marathon the year of the bombing.
What is the vestibular system?
Dr. McGrath
The main cortical area involved with speech production.
What is the primary motor cortex?
The 2 modalities of language expression.
What is spoken language and written expression?
This supervisor reads 30+ fiction books each year.
Dr. McMillan
The medical term for food or liquid in terms of swallowing.
What is Bolus
What is the Glasgow Consciousness Scale?
This system extends through the central core of the brainstem and is responsible for arousal, attention, sleep and awareness. Damage can lead to coma.
Reticular Formation
The amplitude of sound waves.
What is intensity dB?
The cranial nerve that connects to the vestibular system.
What is CN VIII- vestibulocochlear Nerve
This supervisor loves the beach and has 2 golden retrievers.
Mrs. Huff
This type of aphasia is characterized by effortful, labored effort when speaking and generates only 1-2 word phrases.
What is non-fluent aphasia?
The cognitive skills used to set goals and meet these goals.
What are executive functioning skills?
The 3rd phase of swallowing.
What is the pharyngeal phase?
An 8 point scale that assesses levels of consciousness
Ranchos Los Amigos Scale
This supervisor has 3 dogs, all named after a flower. They love to sew and went by the incorrect name for 2 years in elementary school because she was too shy to correct people.
Mrs. Condon
A slow growing unilateral benign tumor on the vestibular branch of CN VIII.
What is a vestibular schwannoma
A muscle that is limp with low tone.
What is flaccid?
This supervisor has been to the Great Wall of China 3 times.
One of the primary issues with TBI patients.
What is decreased attention?
This supervisor is very crafty!
Ms. Couch
The test that measures brain activity using electrodes.
What is an EEG (Electroencephalogram)
The structure in our inner ear that has 3 ducts/vestibules, each filled with perilymph or endolymph.
What is the cochlea?
This supervisor played the drums from 3rd grade to Senior year.
Mrs. Kadinger
Controls involuntary fine motor movements during speech production.
What is the indirect motor system?
Pathway
Cochlea- thalamus- primary auditory cortex- wernickes-BA44 of Brocas.
What is the pathway for auditory comprehension?
The main area of the cerebrum that is responsible for our executive functioning skills.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
The phases of swallowing that are involuntary.
What are pharyngeal and esophageal phases.
The ascending pathway from the reticular formation travels to these locations.
What are thalamus, hypothalamus and cortex?
The structure that is located in the cochlea and contains inner and outer hair cells, which transmit hydraulic energy into electrical signals/impulses.
What is the organ of corti?
The swelling area on each semicircular canal that houses the crista and cupula.
What is the ampullae?
When a muscle is spasmatic, over-toned with sensitive reflexes.
What is spastic?
decision to speak
sent to broca' area
plan is sent to pre-motor cortex
sent to primary motor cortex
What is the pathway for oral production of language?
The space built into our recall system that allows for manipulation of info.
What is working memory?
When food, liquid or saliva enters the airway below the vocal folds.
What is aspiration?
This supervisor also works at Ball Memorial Hospital. When she was in high school, her and her husband were cheerleading partners and she developed vocal nodules from cheering.
Mrs. Durkovich