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| 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 |
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| Fluency,Auditory Comprehension, Repetition and location and extent of the lesion. |
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| Nonfluent Aphasias are caused by: |
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| Fluent Aphasias are caused by: |
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| Dementia/ a impairment of memory. |
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| Repetition is impaired by |
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| Lesions in the Sylvian fissure (arcuate faciculis) |
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| Critical for the comprehension and production of language. |
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| Isolates the perisylvian zone from the areas important for semantics and volitional speech production. |
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| Charactoristics of non fluent aphasia |
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| impaired speech prosody, halting speech, reduced length of utterance, articulatory struggle, reduced grammatical complexity (mostly nouns) |
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| Non Fluent aphasia syndromes |
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Transcortical Motor
Brocas
Mixed transcortical
Global |
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| Fluent aphasia syndromes characterized by: |
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| relatively normal prosody, longer utterance length (+4 words), no articulatory struggle, empty speech (lack of content words), sem./phon. paraphasias |
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| Anomic, conduction, Wernickes and Transcortical Sensory. |
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| Transcortical Motor Aphasia |
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Good Auditory comprehension
Good Repetition
relatively intact naming
Caused by damage to the anterior extrasylvian region |
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Good Auditory comprehension
impaired naming
repetition limited to single words/ phrases |
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| Mixed Transcortical Aphasia (MTA): |
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| Non Fluent, impaired naming,good repetition and impaired auditory processing. |
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Non Fluent,Impaired auditory comprehension,
Impaired naming
Impaired repetition
Caused by damage to a large portion of the perisylvian region. |
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| Fluent, good auditory comprehension, good repetition, and impaired naming. |
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| Good auditory comprehension, frequent paraphrasias, Impaired repetition, impaired naming. |
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| Transcortical Sensory Aphasia |
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| Impaired comprehension, preserved repetition and severely impaired naming. |
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| Severely impaired auditory comprehension, Impaired repetition and impaired naming (Jargon) |
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