Aphasia classification and the syndrome approach Flashcards
(12 cards)
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How can aphasia affect input?
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- understanding spoken words and sentences
- understanding written words and sentences
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How can aphasia affect output?
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- production of spoken words/sentences
- writing words
3
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Define aphasia
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an acquired disorder of language processing subsequent to damage to language centres in brain as result of stroke, head injury, brain tumour, neurosurgery, infections, etc
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What are the different classifications of aphasia?
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- fluent/non-fluent
- expressive/receptive
-brocas, wernickes, conduction
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What are the broad syndromes of aphasia?
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- brocas
- wernickes
- anomic
- conduction
- global
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Why is it useful to classify aphasia with the syndrome approach?
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- can be helpful for individual to know type
- can make predictions on how they will present
- can be a helpful first step
7
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Describe brocas aphasia
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- good comprehension of words
- impaired production of words
- impaired repitition
- non-fluent production
- ommision of affixes and grammatical morphemes
- ssentence comp impaired
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Describe wernicke’s aphasia
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- comp of words/sentences impaired
- impaired production of words
- impaired repitition of words
- fluent speech production
- can lack insight into use of incorrect/irrelevant words
- paragrammatic
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Describe conduction aphasia
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- good comp words/sentences
- good retreival of words but phonological errors (conduite d’approache)
- impaired repitition
- fluent speech production
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Describe anomic aphasia
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- good comp of sentences/words
- impaired production of words
- good repitition
- fluent production (may appear non-fluent when WFD)
- frequent WFD in connected speech
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Describe global aphasia
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- impaired comp of words/sentences
- impaired production of words
- impaired repitition of words
- non-fluent speech production
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Describe Wernicke-Lichtheim model
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- maps onto anatomical regions and shows syndrome of damaged area
