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11 Cards in this Set
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Alexia
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damage to occipital lobe can cause impairments in reading called ...
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Agraphia
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damage to occipital lobe can cause severe writing impairments called .....
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Verbal Paraphasia
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are errors in which an incorrect word unintentionally is substitued for target word( i.e door for window or knife for fork).
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Literal Paraphasia
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phonologic errors in which incorrect sounds replace correct sounds( i.e. shooshburss for toothbrush). It denotes a pattern of articulatory errors.
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Broca's aphasia
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- caused by occlusion of ant. branch of middle cerebral artery
-makes up lower part of premotor cortex -pyramidal tract fibers pass under it, which causes individuals to have right side hemiplegia or paresis -patient are nonfluent ( group words together, abnormal pauses, often sound telegraphic) -Writing takes great effort and resembles the way they speak - comprehend spoken and written language better but both are still impaired to a degree - are aware of communication impairments and may become upset when make speech error |
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3 categories of Verbal Paraphasia
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-Semantic paraphasia: substitutions of semantically related words for target words ( father for mother)
-Unrelated paraphasia: substititions in which subtituted words have no clear relationship to target word ( cigarette for motorcycle) -Perseverative paraphasia: substititions in which previously used word is substituted for a target word such as when patient has correctly named comb calls a key a comb. |
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Impairment
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structural or functional abnormality
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Handicap
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effects of impairment on skill or ability
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Disability
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effects of skill loss on an individual's daily life
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Procedural Memory
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Encoded in areas of the brain involved with motor systems
-caudate nucleus -cerebellum -motor cortex How to do particular skills... biking, cursive writing, etc. |
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Declarative Memory
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Primarily encoded in the medial temporal lobe. Memory of facts and events-verbal information that can be explicity recalled- episodic and semantic memory
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