CETP Aphasia Exam Questions with Correct Answers

CETP Aphasia Exam Questions with Correct Answers Aphasia - ANSWER A neurologically based language disorder -A loss or impairment of language caused by recent brain injury -All, some, or one of the following may be impaired: Verbal expression, auditory comprehension, reading, writing What is the most common cause of aphasia? - ANSWER Stroke Ischemic stroke - ANSWER -Stroke caused by a blocked or interrupted blood supply to the brain Thrombus vs embolus - ANSWER Thrombus: A collection of blood material that blocks the flow of blood Embolus: Travelling mass of arterial debris or clump of tissue from a tumour that gets lodged in a smaller artery and blocks the flow of blood Hemorrhagic Stroke - ANSWER -Caused by bleeding in the brain due to ruptured blood vessels -Ruptures can be intracerebral (within the brain) or extracerebral (within the meninges, resulting in subarachnoid, subdural, and epidural varieties of stroke) T/F: Communication disorders caused by progressive neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, can be classified as aphasia - ANSWER FALSE -These progressive communication disorders cannot be classified as aphasia Non-fluent Aphasia - ANSWER -Characterized by limited, agrammatic, effortful, halting, and slow speech with impaired prosody Damage to Broca's area (Brodmann's areas 44 and 45) in the posterior inferior frontal gyrus in the left hemisphere of the brain generally leads to this type of aphasia... - ANSWER Broca's Aphasia Broca's area is supplied by this artery - ANSWER -Upper division of the middle cerebral artery T/F: Patients with damage limited to Broca's area tend to recover soon, whereas those with more extensive damage (e.g., to the arcuate fasciculus, sensory motor area) tend to have more long-lasting and more severe non-fluent aphasia - ANSWER True Broca's aphasia characteristics - ANSWER Overall: -Expression: Impaired -Comprehension: Relatively spared -Repetition: Impaired