Aphasia

Question 1

What is a Broca’s aphasia? AKA?

Answer 1

Damage to left frontal love causes reduced speech fluency with comprehension relatively preserved

Expressive aphasia / anterior aphasia

Question 2

What is a nominal aphasia? AKA?

Answer 2

Difficulty naming familiar objects

Anomic aphasia or amnestic aphasia

Question 3

What is a Wernicke’s aphasia? AKA?

Answer 3

Left temporo-parietal damage leaves language that is fluent but the words themselves are incorrect

Receptive aphasia / posterior aphasia

Question 4

What is a global aphasia? AKA?

Answer 4

Combination of Broca’s and Wernicke’s - the patient can neither speak or understand language. Due to widespread damage to speech area and is the commonest aphasia after a severe left hemisphere infarct

Question 5

How does a dysarthria differ from a aphasia?

Answer 5

Language is intact in dysarthria as they are disorders of articulation

Caused by paralysis, slowing or incoordination of muscles of articulation