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Aphasia
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11/16/2008

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Aphasia
Definition
An acquired impairment of language characterized by:Impairment of comprehension of language, Impairment of production of language, Word retrieval errors and problems with word selection.
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Aphasia Syndromes are categorized by
Definition
Fluency,Auditory Comprehension, Repetition and location and extent of the lesion.
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Nonfluent Aphasias are caused by:
Definition
Frontal Lesions
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Fluent Aphasias are caused by:
Definition
Posterior lesions.
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aphasia is not
Definition
Dementia/ a impairment of memory.
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Repetition is impaired by
Definition
Lesions in the Sylvian fissure (arcuate faciculis)
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Perisylvian lesions
Definition
Critical for the comprehension and production of language.
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Extrasylvian Lesion
Definition
Isolates the perisylvian zone from the areas important for semantics and volitional speech production.
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Charactoristics of non fluent aphasia
Definition
impaired speech prosody, halting speech, reduced length of utterance, articulatory struggle, reduced grammatical complexity (mostly nouns)
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Non Fluent aphasia syndromes
Definition
Transcortical Motor
Brocas
Mixed transcortical
Global
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Fluent aphasia syndromes characterized by:
Definition
relatively normal prosody, longer utterance length (+4 words), no articulatory struggle, empty speech (lack of content words), sem./phon. paraphasias
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fluent aphasia types
Definition
Anomic, conduction, Wernickes and Transcortical Sensory.
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Transcortical Motor Aphasia
Definition
Good Auditory comprehension
Good Repetition
relatively intact naming
Caused by damage to the anterior extrasylvian region
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Brocas
Definition
Good Auditory comprehension
impaired naming
repetition limited to single words/ phrases
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Mixed Transcortical Aphasia (MTA):
Definition
Non Fluent, impaired naming,good repetition and impaired auditory processing.
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Global Aphasia
Definition
Non Fluent,Impaired auditory comprehension,
Impaired naming
Impaired repetition
Caused by damage to a large portion of the perisylvian region.
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Anomic Aphasia
Definition
Fluent, good auditory comprehension, good repetition, and impaired naming.
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Conduction Aphasia
Definition
Good auditory comprehension, frequent paraphrasias, Impaired repetition, impaired naming.
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Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
Definition
Impaired comprehension, preserved repetition and severely impaired naming.
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Wernicke's Aphasia
Definition
Severely impaired auditory comprehension, Impaired repetition and impaired naming (Jargon)
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