Terms
The study of anatomy physiology and pathology of the nervous system.
What is neurology?
Some type of traumatic blow to the brain that impairs the functioning of the brain.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
Patient presents with having difficulty finding words when trying to express themselves, their speech is unintelligible, and they can't understand others.
What is Aphasia?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
What does MRI stand for?
what is the importance of etiology for SLP's?
to predict the kinds of problems patients are likely to face.
The study of the nervous system diseases
What is Neuropathology?
A degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremors.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
Patient presents with having difficulty in expressive language, specifically verbal output due to motor planning and sequencing.
What is Apraxia?
What are the benefits of a PET scan?
It is good for obtaining information on the brain's physiology based on the glucose levels, allows to see if a person has a disease, is minimally invasive, and painless.
why do SLP's need to have knowledge in Neurology?
They can't diagnose unless is related to speech.
Language disorder that includes receptive and expressive components and is caused by a central nervous system dysfunction.
What is aphasia?
What is neuroimaging used for?
To reveal the brain's anatomy, including the integrity of brain structures and their interconnections.
Speech disorder characterized by a deficit in motor planning and sequencing.
What is apraxia?
When a person arrives in the ER department presenting with neurological signs and symptoms which neuroimaging technique is used first?
CT Scans
Unilateral weakness/paralysis of the body.
Hemiplegia
An aggressive disease that worsens and causes weakness by damaging certain parts of the brain above nerve cell clusters (nuclei) that control eye movements.
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)
What is the difference between structural imaging and functional imaging?
Structural imaging shows the brain's anatomy, while functional imaging shows the brain's activity.
(2) contributed to the idea of connectionism, the belief that there are centers in the brain responsible for certain functions and that these areas are connected and work cooperatively- especially functions in language and communication.
What is Broca and Wernicke?