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Main article: Aphasia
| Receptive aphasia |
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Broca's area and Wernicke's area
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| Classification and external resources |
| ICD-10 |
F80.2 |
| ICD-9 |
784.3 |
| MeSH |
D001041 |
Receptive aphasia, also known as Wernicke’s aphasia, fluent aphasia, or sensory aphasia, is a type of aphasia traditionally associated with neurological damage to Wernicke’s area in the brain,[1] (Brodmann area 22, in the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus of the dominant hemisphere). However, the key deficits of receptive aphasia do not come from damage to Wernicke's area;[1] instead, most of the core difficulties are proposed to come from damage to the medial temporal lobe and underlying white matter. Wernicke's aphasia results from damage in the posterior one-third of the superior gyrus of the temporal lobe of the left hemisphere. Damage in this area not only destroys local language regions but also cuts off most of the occipital, temporal, and parietal regions from the core language region.[2]
People with receptive aphasia are unable to understand language in its written or spoken form, and even though they can speak with normal grammar, syntax, rate, and intonation, they cannot express themselves meaningfully using language. People with Wernicke's aphasia are typically unaware of how they are speaking and do not realize it may lack meaning. [3] Having a deficit and not knowing it exists or denying it exists is called anosognosia. People with Wernicke's Aphasia typically remain unaware of even their most profound language deficits. [4]
Receptive aphasia is not to be confused with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
Contents
- 1 Presentation
- 2 Luria's theory
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 Further reading
- 6 External links
§Presentation
Two cortical areas central for the understanding and production of language are Wernicke’s area, and Broca’s area. Wernicke’s Area is located posterior to the lateral sulcus, typically in the left hemisphere, between the visual, auditory, and somesthetic areas of the cerebral cortex. A person with this aphasia speaks with normal prosody and intonation but uses random or invented words; leaves out key words; substitutes words or verb tenses, pronouns, or prepositions; and utters sentences that do not make sense. Therefore, their expressive language is devoid of any meaning. This is referred to as empty speech. Other symptoms can include a loss of verbal pragmatic skills and conversational turn-taking. As a result, these individuals often display logorrhea, a nonstop output of speech. [5] A person with this aphasia cannot understand the spoken words of others or read written words. Speech is preserved, but language content is incorrect. Substitutions of one word for another (paraphasias, e.g. “telephone” for “television”) are common. Comprehension and repetition are poor.[citation needed]
Patients who recover from Wernicke’s aphasia report that, while aphasic, they found the speech of others to be unintelligible. And, despite being cognizant of the fact that they were speaking, they could neither stop themselves nor understand their own words.[citation needed]
The ability to understand and repeat songs is usually unaffected, as these are processed by the opposite hemisphere[citation needed].
Patients also generally have no trouble purposefully reciting anything they have memorized[citation needed]. The ability to utter profanity is also left unaffected[citation needed], however the patient typically has no control over it, and may not even understand their own profanity.[citation needed]
Damage to the posterior portion of the left hemisphere’s superior and middle temporal lobe or gyrus and the temporoparietal cortex can produce a lesion to Wernicke’s area and may cause fluent aphasia, or Wernicke’s aphasia[citation needed]. If Wernicke’s area is damaged in the non-dominant hemisphere, the syndrome resulting will be sensory dysprosody[citation needed] — the inability to perceive the pitch, rhythm, and emotional tone of speech.
Patients who communicated using sign language before the onset of the aphasia experience analogous symptoms.[6]
§Luria's theory
Luria proposed that this type of aphasia has three characteristics.[7]
- 1) A deficit in the categorization of sounds. In order to hear and understand what is said, one must be able to recognize the different sounds of spoken language. For example, hearing the difference between bad and bed is easy for native English speakers. The Dutch language however, makes a much greater difference in pronunciation between these vowels, and therefore the Dutch have difficulties hearing the difference between them in English pronunciation. This problem is exactly what patients with Wernicke’s aphasia have in their own language: they can't isolate significant sound characteristics and classify them into known meaningful systems.
- 2) A defect in speech. A patient with Wernicke's aphasia can and may speak a great deal, but he or she confuses sound characteristics, producing “word salad” in extreme cases: intelligible words that appear to be strung together randomly.
- 3) An impairment in writing. A person who cannot discern sounds cannot be expected to write.
§See also
- Aphasia
- Expressive aphasia
- Schizophasia
- Conduction aphasia
- Logorrhea
- Agraphia
- Paragrammatism
- Transcortical sensory aphasia
§References
- ^ a b Kolb & Whishaw: Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology (2003) page 505
- ^ Kolb & Whishaw: Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology (2003) page 506
- ^ ASHA: American Speech and Language Association http://www.asha.org/Practice-Portal/Clinical-Topics/Aphasia/Common-Classifications-of-Aphasia/
- ^ Manasco, M. Hunter. (2014). Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders. Jones and Bartlett Learning. Burlington, MA. Pg. 83
- ^ Manasco, Hunter. "The Aphasias". Introduction to Neurogenic Communcation Disorders. p. 93.
- ^ http://pages.slc.edu/~ebj/IM_97/Lecture10/L10.html
- ^ Kolb & Whishaw: Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology (2003), pages 503-504. The whole paragraph on Luria's theory is written with help of this reference.
Manasco, M. Hunter. (2014). Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders. Jones and Bartlett Learning. Burlington, MA. Pg. 83
§Further reading
Klein, Stephen B., and Thorne. Biological Psychology. New York: Worth, 2007. Print. Saladin, Kenneth S. Anatomy & Physiology: the Unity of Form and Function. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010. Print.
§External links
- Aphasia Center of California in Oakland, CA, U.S.
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Symptoms and signs: Speech and voice / Symptoms involving head and neck (R47–R49, 784)
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| Aphasias |
- Acute Aphasias
- Expressive aphasia
- Receptive aphasia
- Conduction aphasia
- Anomic aphasia
- Global aphasia
- Transcortical sensory aphasia
- Transcortical motor aphasia
- Mixed transcortical aphasia
- Progressive Aphasias
- Progressive nonfluent aphasia
- Semantic dementia
- Logopenic progressive aphasia
- Speech disturbances
- Speech disorder
- Developmental verbal dyspraxia/Apraxia of speech
- Auditory verbal agnosia
- Dysarthria
- Schizophasia
- Aprosodia/Dysprosody
- Specific language impairment
- Thought disorder
- Pressure of speech
- Derailment
- Clanging
- Circumstantiality
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| Communication disorders |
- Developmental dyslexia/Alexia
- Agnosia
- Astereognosis
- Prosopagnosia
- Visual agnosia
- Gerstmann syndrome
- Developmental coordination disorder/Apraxia
- Dyscalculia/Acalculia
- Agraphia
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| Voice disturbances |
- Dysphonia/Aphonia
- Bogart–Bacall syndrome
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| Nose |
- Post-nasal drip
- Epistaxis
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| Mouth |
- Orofacial pain
- Fremitus
- Tooth mobility
- Bruxism
- Trismus
- Ageusia
- Hypogeusia
- Dysgeusia
- Parageusia
- Hypergeusia
- Xerostomia
- Halitosis
- Drooling
- Hypersalivation
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| Neck |
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| Other |
- Headache
- Auditory processing disorder
- Otalgia
- Velopharyngeal inadequacy
- Velopharyngeal insufficiency
- Hypersensitive gag reflex
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Index of psychology and psychiatry
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| Disorders |
- Mental and behavioral
- Mood
- Substance-related
- Symptoms and signs
- Evaluation and testing
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| Treatment |
- Psychotherapy
- Drugs
- depression
- antipsychotics
- anxiety
- dementia
- hypnotics and sedatives
- psychostimulants, ADHD and nootropics
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| Description |
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| Disease |
- Congenital
- face and neck
- cleft
- digestive system
- Neoplasms and cancer
- Other
- Symptoms and signs
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Lesions of spinal cord and brain
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Spinal cord/
vascular myelopathy |
- sensory: Sensory ataxia
- Tabes dorsalis
- motor: Motor neurone disease
- mixed: Brown-Séquard syndrome
- cord syndrome (Posterior
- Anterior
- Central/Syringomyelia)
- Subacute combined degeneration of spinal cord (B12)
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Anterior spinal artery syndrome
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| Brainstem |
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Medulla (CN 8, 9, 10, 12)
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- Lateral medullary syndrome/Wallenberg
- Medial medullary syndrome/Dejerine
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Pons (CN 5, 6, 7, 8)
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- Upper dorsal pontine syndrome/Raymond Céstan syndrome
- Lateral pontine syndrome (AICA) (lateral)
- Medial pontine syndrome/Millard-Gubler syndrome/Foville's syndrome(basilar)
- Locked-in syndrome
- Internuclear ophthalmoplegia
- One and a half syndrome
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Midbrain (CN 3, 4)
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- Weber's syndrome
- Benedikt syndrome
- Parinaud's syndrome
- Nothnagel's syndrome
- Claude's syndrome
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Other
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| Cerebellum |
- lateral (Dysmetria
- Dysdiadochokinesia
- Intention tremor)
- medial (Cerebellar ataxia)
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| Basal ganglia |
- Chorea
- Dystonia
- Parkinson's disease
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| Cortex |
- ACA syndrome
- MCA syndrome
- PCA syndrome
- frontal lobe: Expressive aphasia
- Abulia
- parietal lobe: Receptive aphasia
- Hemispatial neglect
- Gerstmann syndrome
- Astereognosis
- occipital lobe: Bálint's syndrome
- Cortical blindness
- Pure alexia
- temporal lobe: Cortical deafness
- Prosopagnosia
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| Thalamus |
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| Other |
- Subclavian steal syndrome
- Upper motor neurone lesion (Clasp-knife response)
- Lower motor neurone lesion
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Index of the central nervous system
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| Description |
- Anatomy
- meninges
- cortex
- association fibers
- commissural fibers
- lateral ventricles
- basal ganglia
- diencephalon
- mesencephalon
- pons
- cerebellum
- medulla
- spinal cord
- Physiology
- Development
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| Disease |
- Meningitis
- Demyelinating diseases
- Seizures and epilepsy
- Headache
- Stroke
- Sleep
- Congenital
- Injury
- Neoplasms and cancer
- Other
- Symptoms and signs
- head and neck
- eponymous
- lesions
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| Treatment |
- Procedures
- Drugs
- general anesthetics
- analgesics
- addiction
- epilepsy
- cholinergics
- migraine
- Parkinson's
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