Symptoms of anomic aphasia What are the clinical features of anomic aphasia, and where is the lesion that underlies it? Persons with anomic aphasia have isolated deficits in word finding. Otherwise, their speech is fluent with good comprehension and good repetition. Lesions producing this aphasia localize less specifically than other aphasias. They may be in the …
Symptoms of Aphemia What are the clinical features of aphemia and where is the lesion that underlies it? Aphemia refers to poor speech output with sparing of comprehension and writing. Speech output can be slow and halting. Aphemia has been reported with lesions of the lower motor strip (cortical dysarthria), supplementary motor cortex, and several other areas.
Symptoms of Brocas aphasia What are the clinical features of Brocas aphasia and where is the lesion responsible for it? Speech is nonfluent, effortful, agrammatic, and telegraphic, with poor ability to name, semantic and phonemic paraphasic errors, impaired repetition, and relatively spared comprehension. The lesion is in Broca’s area (the frontal operculum, Brodmann areas 44 and 45), …
Symptoms of nonfluent aphasia What are the clinical characteristics of nonfluent aphasia? Impaired articulation, impaired melodic production, reduced phrase length (five or fewer words per phrase), and decreased grammatical complexity. The production of fewer than 15 words per minute is used to define nonfluent aphasias.
Aphasias which spare repetition and impaired repetition Which aphasias spare repetition and which have impaired repetition? Repetition is spared in those outside the perisylvian fissure area , including transcortical motor, transcortical sensory, and thalamic aphasias Repetition is impaired in the perisylvian aphasias , including Broca’s, Wernicke’s, conduction aphasia, and pure word deafness
Fluent Nonfluent Aphasias Which are the nonfluent aphasias and which are the fluent aphasias? Nonfluent Aphasias Anterior aphasias are Nonfluent Aphasias which includes Broca’s, global, mixed transcortical transcortical motor Fluent aphasias The posterior aphasias are fluent aphasias which includes Wernicke’s, transcortical sensory, and usually thalamic The Aphasias Fluency Repetition Naming/Word Finding Comprehension Reading Writing Paraphasic Errors Lesion Location Transcortical motor NF …
Memory difficulties with frontal lobe lesions What types of memory difficulties occur with frontal lobe lesions ? Frontal lobe damage can lead to important cognitive, emotional, and social dysfunction. The frontal lobes are organized into three basic subdivisions: precentral, premotor, and prefrontal. The prefrontal division is crucial for higher order functions like planning, judgment, reasoning, decision making, emotional regulation, …