Neuro Final Exam

Parkinson's disease & Huntington's disease are classified as ____ dementia

_____ is when lipids & fibrous materials carried in bloodstream deposited, attach to lining of artery & accumulate

Which type of aphasia?

Inadequate blood flow from bleeding & occlusion of brain cells, suddenly following stroke, apathy, restless, confusion..

Intracranial tumor may be primary or secondary (originates in the cranial vault)

Patients with lesion anterior to the perisylvian region tend have _____ impairments in comprehension

Turbulence breaks materials (clots, plaques...), carried in bloodstream into smaller blood vessels, occlusion of vessels

Memory lapse, impaired reasoning/judgment, disorientation, alterations of mood are late symptoms of Alzheimer's disease

Which type of aphasia?

Treatment of agrammatism: mapping therapy, treatment underlying forms, verb network strengthening treatment (V-NeST)

20-30 min, useful for bedside testing, verbal or gestural responses, identifies preserved verbal & nonverbal abilities

Attention based tasks for treatment of auditory comprehension include:

Which type of aphasia?

Stuck-in-set perseveration follows

Intracranial tumor may be primary (originates outside cranial vault & migrates to intracranial location) or secondary

Which type of aphasia?

Treatment of auditory comprehension uses cognition-based tasks

Pierre Marie, Hughlings Jackson, and Henry Head were _______

Language is dormant (not lost), communication problems related to formulation, accessing, & retrieval of linguistic info

Damage to thalamus and basal ganglia may result in _____ aphasia

Control inducing variables, establish set new tasks, time-out & distraction, raise awareness, conceal previous responses

Below are adaptation or compensatory symptoms of agrammatic speech

Two types of ischemic stroke are ____

One of longest batteries, Cookie theft pic, 1-5 hrs or 40-60 min, 4 sections for each modality, no summary scores

Which type of aphasia?

Unknown cause, changes in cortical neurons, senile plaque, temporo-parieto-occipital junction, inferior temporal lobes

Patients severely impaired in reading but can spell aloud, left posterior cerebral artery damaged, have ______

Early symptoms of AD are cognitive impairment, agitation, lost in familiar environments, incontinence, motor problems

Evals linguistic & nonlinguistic skills, fluency scale, spontaneous speech/naming/repetition/aud comprehension subtests

Semantic, lexical, & phonemic carryover are 3 types of _____

Token test (subtle comprehension deficits) & Boston naming test (word finding problems) are both supplemental tests

Intracranial tumors, infections & toxins, toxemia, nutritional & metabolic disorders, hydrocephalus are insidious causes

Language units that show grammatical or structural relationships between other elements of a sentence (function words)

Intensive repetitive drills & generalization are implications & advantages of process based treatment

Below are _____ symptoms of agrammatic speech

Key treatment principle has to do with selection & manipulation of stimuli & patient response, comprehension deficit

Damage to perisylvian region in left temporal and parietal lobe results in ____ aphasia

Lesions outside perisylvian cortex & in temporal lobe may result in ____ aphasia

Communication problems are rarely caused by metabolic imbalance and more commonly caused by nutritional disorders

Listing short utterances with and, SVO-main verbs omitted, omissions of auxiliary verbs/determiners(articles)/pronouns

A language component that specifies internal structure of words

Which type of aphasia?

Mixed dementia is characterized by more than one type (AD & vascular), misdiagnosed as AD, diagnosis with autopsy

Which type of aphasia?

Perseveration - AD: characterized by persistence of same response set & WA: intrusion of unrelated thoughts

Lesions in arcuate fasciculus and from fiber tract damage may result in ____ aphasia

Franz Joseph Gall, Paul Broca, and Wernicke were ______

Which type of aphasia?

Patients with Huntington's disease exhibit hypokinetic dysarthria: imprecise consonant artic, harsh/strained voice

__________ is when walls of arteries or capillaries thicken or harden & lose their elasticity

Which type of aphasia?

Which type of aphasia?

Which type of aphasia?

Which stroke: gradual occlusion large arteries, occurs where artery bends & increased turbulence, atherosclerosis

Progressive decline in mental function & acquired intellectual skills; language, memory, visuospatial skills compromised

Odd-man-out, ordering by size/weight, sorting semantically related pics & objects, odd-man-out pic objects

Circumlocution - Alzheimer's: due to memory lapse & Wernicke's: due word retrieval difficulties

Agrammatism is impaired ability to process morphology & syntax, deals with word order, usually associated with nonfluent

Most common types of primary intracranial tumors are

Degenerative disease shrinks frontal & temporal lobes, tau, loss of neurons throughout cortex, no cure (Univ. CA)

Language units that specify concepts & categories (also called content words, lexemes, or vocab words)

Deposits in brain, damage to neurons, visual hallucinations, cognitive/sleep/motor problems, decline autonomic nervous s

These infections of CNS (mumps & measles, animal/insect bites - rabies, humans - HIV) are viral

Record of plan of care, prescribed medications, lab tests, referrals, rehab services

The basic form of a lexical item, mental image of language sounds/their combinations, contains phonemic & phonetic info

Damage to perisylvian region in left frontal lobe results in ____ aphasia

Bacterial meningitis and brain abscess are both viral infections

Secondary intracranial tumor is commonly known as ________ (originates in cells in breasts, lungs, larynx, pharynx)

Which type of aphasia?

Damage to the left hemisphere disrupts which aspect of language processing?

Occurs when blood vessels rupture, vessels become weak & stretched by blood pressure, cause by weakness/traumatic injury

Which stroke: arterial blockage, deprivation of blood results in death of CNS tissue (infarct), also called occlusive

Damage to outside the perisylvian cortex in watershed area may result in _____ aphasia

Patients who have disturbed reading & writing ability, damage to area in and around angular gyrus have _____

Repetition of "apple" for orange is a semantic perseveration

Oldest aphasia battery, profile approach for prognosis, takes 3-6 hours, 5 sections & 47 subtests, 7 categories

Patients with lesion posterior to the Rolandic fissure exhibit

Patients with Parkinson's disease exhibit hyperkinetic dysarthria: breathy voice, imprecise C artic, hypernasality

Lexical items belong to ____ word classes, which have open-ended (countless) membership

Voluntary control of involuntary utterances (VCIU) is a treatment approach for perseveration

Damage across entire perisylvian cortex results in ____ aphasia

Patients with lesion ____ the perisylvian region generally have unimpaired repetition ability

Alzheimer's disease and Pick's disease are both classified as _____ dementia

Damage to the right hemisphere disrupts which aspect of language processing?

Gradual occlusion in thrombotic stroke = temporary disruption in cerebral blood circulation, artery nearly blocked

Demographics, physician, provisional diagnosis, ward, reason

Performance of every task including lang processing requires cognitive resources/attention that serves as fuel

Paraphasia, perseveration, jargon, empty words, nonsense phrases, word retrieval problems, impaired pragmatics

Continuous perseveration rarely or never follows right hemisphere damage

Which type of aphasia?

"Table" for car is a ____ perseveration

10 stimuli used in all 18 subtests, tasks ranked difficult to easy, 1-1.5 hours, predicts recovery, training for scores

Seddoh will call the police on you if you don't get an A on this final

Patients with lesion anterior to Rolandic fissure exhibit

Patients with lesion posterior to the perisylvian region tend have _____ impairments in comprehension