Week 1: Aphasia Terminology and Considerations

Question 1

the loss of the ability to recognize objects, faces, voices, or places. It is a rare disorder

Answer 1

Agnosia

Question 2

a motor disorder caused by damage to the brain, in which someone has difficulty with the motor planning to perform tasks or movements when asked, provided that the request or command is understood and he/she is willing to perform the task.

Answer 2

Apraxia

Question 3

a form of aphasia in which the patient is unable to recall the names of everyday objects.

Answer 3

Anomia

Question 4

: an acquired neurological disorder causing a loss in the ability to communicate through writing, either due to some form of motor dysfunction[1] or an inability to spell.The loss of writing ability may present with other language or neurological disorder

Answer 4

Agraphia

Question 5

neurologic disorder marked by loss of the ability to understand written or printed language, usually resulting from a brain lesion or a congenital defect

Answer 5

Alexia

Question 6

: a form of expressive aphasia that refers to the inability to speak in a grammatically correct fashion; omission of or inability to use function words

Answer 6

Agrammatism

Question 7

form of aphasia characterized by the unintended substitution of an inappropriate phoneme substitution, addition or removal

Answer 7

Phonemic or Literal Paraphasia

Question 8

form of aphasia characterized by a real word, usually related to the intended word.

Answer 8

Semantic or Verbal Paraphasia

Question 9

invented word, sometimes used by individuals with aphasia

Answer 9

Neologism

Question 10

unintelligible, meaningless, or incoherent speech (as that associated with Wernicke’s aphasia)

Answer 10

Jargon

Question 11

conceptually inferior, automatic, highly learned speech

Answer 11

Subpropositional or verbal stereotypical speech

Question 12

substitution of another word, phrase, gesture or use circumlocutions (i.e., they talk around or about the specific word)

Answer 12

Circumlocation

Question 13

an impairment of language, affecting the production or
comprehension of speech and the ability
to read or write

Answer 13

Aphasia

Question 14

3 Types of fluent aphasia

Answer 14

Conduction
Wernicke’s
Transcortical Sensory

Question 15

Name the aphasia: 
fluent 
neologisms
logorrhea
lack of awareness of deficits 
jargon

Answer 15

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Question 16

Name the aphasia:
fluent, but no excessive verbal production
impaired repetition of words and sentences
intact auditory comprehension
literal paraphasias
phonemic paraphasias

Answer 16

Conduction Aphasia

Question 17

Name the aphasia: 
fluent 
well-articulated speech 
paraphasias
neologisms
repetition ability intact 
poor auditory comprehension

Answer 17

Transcortical Sensory Aphasia (TSA)

Question 18

3 basic types of nonfluent aphasia

Answer 18

Broca’s
Transcortical Motor Aphasia
Global

Question 19

Name the aphasia: 
non-fluent 
awkward articulation 
restricted vocabulary 
agrammatism 
intact auditory and reading comprehension

Answer 19

Broca’s Aphasia

Question 20

Name the aphasia: 
non-fluent 
repetition intact 
phonemic and global paraphasias 
syntactic errors
perseveration
auditory comprehension intact

Answer 20

Transcortical Motor Aphasia (TMA)

Question 21

Name the aphasia:
non-fluent
impaired linguistic comprehension and expression
very few utterances
restricted lexicon
considered combination of Wernike’s and Broca’s

Answer 21

Global Aphasia

Question 22

Name the aphasia:
significant word retrieval problems
speech is generally fluent except for word-finding
grammar is intact

Answer 22

Anomic Aphasia

Question 23

Name the aphasia:
communicative skills degenerate
deficits in language relative to cognitive ability
underlying etiology is typically a degenerative disease

Answer 23

Primary Progressive Aphasia

Question 24

A deficit in reading ability

Answer 24

Alexia

Question 25

A deficit in writing ability

Answer 25

Agraphia

Question 26

Etiologies for Aphasia (other than stroke)

Answer 26

TBI
Brain Surgery 
Infections 
Tumors 
Exposure to Neurotoxic Agents

Question 27

Brain damage limited to the SMG results in what type of aphasia?

Answer 27

Conduction Aphasia

Question 28

Brain damage in a large sector of the inferior frontal gyrus results in what type of aphasia?

Answer 28

Broca’s Aphasia

Question 29

Brain damage around the temporal branches of the MCA result in what type of aphasia?

Answer 29

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Question 30

A large infarct of the left MCA would result in what type of aphasia?

Answer 30

Global Aphasia

Question 31

Small subcortical lesions in anterior watershed area results in what type of aphasia?

Answer 31

Transcortical Motor Aphasia

Question 32

Language that involves encoding of a message that contains specific information in relation to believing, knowing, hoping, desiring, fearing, or remembering

Answer 32

Propositional Language

Question 33

Speech-acts that include rote recitations of numbers, times, and dates, repetitions of filler words or phrases, conventional greetings, expletives and scripted questions

Answer 33

Non-propositional Language