Test One Flashcards
Transcortical Motor Aphasia
Caused by damage to the area directly in front of Broca’s area, the prefrontal, and connections between the two. Go button is broken, and do tasks literally.
Definition of Aphasia (Basics 6)
Acquired, left side language function, multimodal, affects both expressive and receptive, caused by brain damage, and cognition is relatively intact.
Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
Caused by damage to the fibers between Wernicke’s, angular gyrus, and parietal lobe. Comprehension is difficult. Distinguished from Wernicke’s because speech is intact but comprehension is poor.
Transcortical Mixed Aphasia
Caused by damage to the area in front of Broca’s and behind Wernicke’s. Likely caused by anoxic brain damage. Cannot talk or comprehend, but can repeat.
Jargon
Undifferentiated- same non word repeated over and over again. Neologistic- different non words repeated over and over again. Semantic- non meaningful at the sentence level but individuals words are understandable.
MRI
Uses magnetic field to attract hydrogen in water. Cell death means that no water and therefore hydrogen is present. If no water the area will appear white. Extremely expensive and must stay completely still during process.
fMRI
Functional MRI. Measures the amount of deoxygenated hemoglobin in the brain. Less hemoglobin the more oxygen is being used, and the more oxygen the more active that area of the brain is. Shows what areas have taken over for damaged areas and what areas may not be directly damaged but function below normal.
Photon Emission Tomography
PET Scan. Radioactive tracer is injected or inhaled into the body. The scan picks up the tracer and converts it into a 3d image. May take up to three hours to complete and individual must stay completely still during that time.
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Measures water movement across mylinated axons. Can look at the damage in the connections between the brain. Is good for anoxic damage.
Subcortical Aphasia
Caused by damage swelling in the language areas of the brain. Exhibit phonemic paraphasias.
ICF Activities and Participation
Executing life tasks. Capacity-standard environment. Performance- current environment.
ICF Environmental Factors
External factors that influence functioning and disability. Can include policies, services, attitudes, and systems.
Disability Epidemiology
The study of the distribution, determinants, correlates, and outcomes of disability and the application of this study to maximizing the health, participation, and quality of life of people and persons with disability.
Completed Stroke
Maximum damage to the brain but individual is physiologically stable. May begin therapy.
Boston Diagnostic Exam
Measure of body function. Contains language sample, comprehension tasks for reading, writing, and speaking. Contains vocabulary controls. Major problem is that it is out of context and does not give accurate representation of the conversational strengths and weaknesses of an individual. Was intended to classify individuals based on their type of aphasia, and was not indented for basing therapy goals off of.
CALD-2
Similar to the ASHA FACS but standardized. Is a good test for how patients participate in environment. Sets up scenarios and scores patient responses. Decontextualixed so not most accurate on skill level. Good for creating therapy goals in relation to activity and participation.
ASHA FACS
Based off of the predecessor to the ICF. Is a test of how well individuals participate in daily life. Is rated on a 7 point Likert scale. Rating is highly subjective, and there is poor interrater reliability. Has a good interview guide that could be used, and good for creation of functional goals.
1 PICA
No response.
2 PICA
Attention, but no response.
3 PICA
Minimal, unintelligible response that cannot be differentiated from other responses.
4 PICA
Unintelligible, or incomprehensible response that can be differentiated from other responses.
5 PICA
Intelligible, but not associated with test response.
6 PICA
Error, inaccurate response.
7 PICA
Related, but inaccurate response.