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Aphasia etc. Matching
What are the hallmarks of Sub-cortical dementia?
1. Pathological changes to the basal ganglia, thalamus, and brain stem 2. Motor changes appear early 3. Changes to intellect and language appear later
What are the American Psychiatric Association's defined symptoms of Dementia?
1. Impaired short-term memory 2. Impaired long-term memory 3. Impaired in at least one of the following: Abstract thinking, personality, judgement, constructional abilities (interpreting), language, praxis (skill, habitual practice), visual recognition
What is Mixed Nonfluent Aphasia?
NON-FLUENT Lies somewhere between Global and Broca's with severe anomia, relatively poor auditory comprehension, poor repetition, with performances in these modalities being neither as poor as Global or good as Broca's
Retrospective memory: What is the difference between declarative and procedural memory?
Declarative: What we know about things (how to do something). 2 types: episodic and semantic Procedural: collection of habits that can be applied automatically (knowing how to perform a task)
What are some cognitive-communication problems that can occur from right hemisphere damage?
1. Attention 2. Left-side neglect 3. Memory 4. Organization 5. Orientation 6. Problem solving 7. Reasoning 8. Social communication (pragmatics)
What is the neural pathway for SILENT READING comprehension?
1. Eye 2. Optic nerve 3. Optic Chiasm 4. Optic tract 5. Lateral Geniculate (diencephalon) 6. Optic Radiations 7. Primary Visual Cortex (17) 8. Visual Association Cortex (18 & 19) 9. Wernicke's Area (posterior 22)
Why is attention important to communication?
Attention is important to communication because it assures topic maintenance, proper responses, and social acceptance.
What is alertness?
Readiness to respond to stimulation
Assessing cognition: Phasic alertness?
Reaction-time testing
What is Tonic alertness?
Alertness lasting over longer time intervals (minutes to hours)
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