TB7 B&B MCQs Lecture 1; Brain mechanisms of language

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What are aphasias?
Disorders of speaking and listening caused by stroke, tumour, brain injury.
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What is dementia?
Progressive, degenerative disease which can affect speech and language over time
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Although not a discrete split, in the left/right brain dichotomy what is the left brain responsible for?
Most aspects of language processing, aswell as sensory input from the right and right-sided movement.
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Although not a discrete split, in the left/right brain dichotomy what is the right brain responsible for?
For subtle aspects of language such as metaphors, aswell as sensory input from the left and left-sided movement. Also responsible for visuo-spatial attention.
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What helps patients with pure word deafness? (patients who can hear the sounds of speech but cannot discriminate between phonemes)
Context, lip reading and slower speech
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To understand spoken words, which areas lie on the ventral route?
Auditory cortex to the anterior temporal lobe
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In repeating unfamiliar words where there is no knowledge of meaning, which process occurs?
A dorsal non-semantic route is taken from auditory cortex to wernickes area, the angular gyrus, the inferior frontal gyrus and terminating in speech motor cortex
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What is a symptom of deep dysphasia?
Inability to repeat unfamiliar words and non-words
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What do the symptoms of deep dysphasia imply?
Damage to the dorsal route and partial ventral damage. Right hemisphere systems are potentially being used to compensate.
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What is agrammatism?
An inability in converting thoughts into sentences, particularly the ability to construct around the verb
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What is a comorbid symptom of agrammatism?
Issues in understanding complex sentences (suggesting shared processes between production and comprehension)
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What characterises brocas aphasia?
Speech is difficult to initiate, faulty articulation. Meaning dependent on syntax is impaired, may only be able to produce a single word.
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What does the double dissassociation between sentence planning and articulatory processing suggest?
They are distinct processes mediated by adjacent brain areas in the left inferior frontal region and are often damaged together
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