Graduate Seminar in Neurological Bases of Communication
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Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the neurological mechanisms that underlie human communication, integrating findings from neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and cognitive neuroscience. Students will examine the roles of specific brain regions and neural networks in language production, comprehension, and social exchange, with emphasis on both typical development and disorders such as aphasia, dysarthria, and communication deficits following brain injury. Through analysis of current research, case studies, and interactive discussions, the seminar fosters critical thinking about the neural processes that facilitate speech, language, and communicative behavior in diverse populations.
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Neurology for the Speech Language Pathologist 5th Edition by Wanda Webb
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Speech-Language Neurology
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Q1) Lesions in Wernicke's area cause a(n):
A)motor aphasia
B)sensory aphasia
C)agnosia
D)apraxia
Answer: B
Q2) A dysarthria is:
A)a disorder of cortical sensory recognition
B)a disorder of executing motor acts as a result of a brain lesion
C)a group of fibers connecting areas or centers of the brain
D)a neurologic speech disorder
Answer: D
Q3) Structures lying at the base of the brain may be anatomically described as being:
A)dorsal
B)rostral
C)cephalic
D)ventral
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Organization of the Nervous System I
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Q1) The enfolding of the cortex of the brain during development forms the:
A)sulci
B)fissures
C)lobes
D)gyri
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is NOT crucial to information processing and communication processing in the brain?
A)total number of nerve cells
B)total volume of the cerebral cortex
C)the shape of the brain
D)degree of dendritic growth or proliferation
Answer: C
Q3) The five regions of the spinal cord are the cervical,thoracic,lumbar,sacral,and ___________ regions.
A)caudal
B)coccygeal
C)cranial
D)dorsal
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Organization of the Nervous System II
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Q1) The sympathetic nervous system:
A)conserves energy by lowering the heart rate
B)has ganglia that are close to the tissue it innervates
C)has long preganglionic fibers
D)has ganglia that are close to the central nervous system
Answer: D
Q2) The ___ integrates autonomic activity with endocrine and somatic responses.
A)periaqueductal gray matter
B)hypothalamus
C)nucleus solitarius
D)pituitary gland
E)amygdala
Answer: B
Q3) Patients with ___ damage may have a lack of self-awareness and display inappropriate social behavior.
A)frontal lobe
B)temporal lobe
C)occipital lobe
D)parietal lobe
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Neuronal Function in the Nervous System
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Q1) Action potentials develop:
A)at the nodes of Ranvier
B)only when a cell is hyperpolarized
C)only in myelinated axons
D)during the absolute refractory period
Q2) Primary neuronal loss:
A)is variable in degree of damage and in the length of time it takes to occur
B)occurs in the region adjacent to the neurological injury
C)occurs immediately following a neurological injury
D)occurs in the vicinity of the neurological injury
E)both C and D
Q3) A neuron with an axon of small diameter will conduct neural impulses faster than a neuron with an axon of a large diameter.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a component of the synapse?
A)the postsynaptic terminal
B)the axon hillock
C)the synaptic cleft
D)the presynaptic terminal
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Chapter 5: Neurosensory Organization of Speech and Hearing
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Q1) Although visual processing requires the interconnectivity of all the pathways and cortical areas,the ___ has been shown to play a role in recognizing familiar faces.
A)pretectal pathway
B)tectal pathway
C)peristriate cortex
D)temporal visual cortex
Q2) The unconscious sense of where one body part is in relation to the other in automatic movement sequences is processed in the:
A)lateral spinothalamic tract
B)anterior spinothalamic tract
C)spinocerebellar tract
D)anterolateral tract
E)dorsal column pathway
Q3) Sensations of pain and temperature are processed in the:
A)lateral spinothalamic tract
B)dorsal column pathway
C)spinocerebellar tract
D)anterolateral tract
E)both A and D
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Chapter 6: Neuromotor Control of Speech
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Q1) One similarity between the corticospinal and corticonuclear fibers is that:
A)both sets of fibers pass through the posterior limb of the internal capsule
B)both fibers originate at the cortex
C)they are both largely composed of contralateral fibers
D)they both terminate on lower motor neurons in the spinal cord
Q2) The supplementary motor area has efferent projections to the:
A)brainstem
B)prefrontal cortex
C)primary motor cortex
D)both B and C
Q3) The ___ of the cerebellum is responsible for regulating posture.
A)vermis
B)flocculonodular lobe
C)anterior lobe
D)posterior lobe
E)peduncles
Q4) The size of a motor unit is independent of muscle strength and control.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Cranial Nerves
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Q1) Upon protrusion,a patient's tongue deviates to one side,which is evidence of:
A)unilateral lower motor neuron damage
B)bilateral lower motor neuron damage
C)unilateral upper motor neuron damage
D)bilateral upper motor neuron damage
E)both A and C,depending on the side of the lesion
Q2) The visceral component of cranial nerve __ is responsible for salivation.
A)V
B)VII
C)IX
D)X
E)both B and C
Q3) Which of these cranial nerves does not have a visceral component?
A)III
B)V
C)VII
D)IX
E)X
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Chapter 8: Clinical Speech Syndromes of the Motor Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a typical speech characteristic of ataxic dysarthria?
A)excessive loudness
B)hypernasality
C)imprecise consonants
D)vowel distortion
E)difficulties with prosodic features
Q2) Apraxia is not a result of:
A)comprehension deficits
B)sensory loss
C)inattentiveness
D)paralysis
E)all of the above
Q3) Stroke is the primary etiology for __ dysarthria.
A)unilateral upper motor neuron
B)spastic
C)flaccid
D)hypokinetic
E)hyperkinetic
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Chapter 9: Pediatric Clinical Speech Syndromes: The Developing Brain
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Q1) The speech-language pathologist should become familiar with primitive reflexes in order to:
A)learn how the infant can transition from the cooing stage to the babbling stage
B)determine whether there may be underlying neuropathology
C)learn how the infant's primitive reflexes will develop into normal movement patterns
D)distinguish a language deficit from a cognitive deficit
E)both B and C
Q2) A "scissors gait" is characteristic of spastic:
A)hemiplegia
B)diplegia
C)paraplegia
D)quadriplegia
Q3) According to Locke's four-phase scheme of language development,speech and language delays can be explained by:
A)the infant's ability to orient himself or herself to faces and voices
B)the infant's ability to discriminate voices
C)an interruption in any of the four phases of language development
D)the infant's storing too many utterances used for social purposes
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Chapter 10: Central Language Mechanism and Learning
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Q1) ___ is the anatomical connection between Broca's area and Wernicke's area.
A)The corpus callosum
B)The arcuate fasciculus
C)The angular gyrus
D)The supramarginal gyrus
E)The primary motor cortex
Q2) Constraint-induced therapy:
A)relies on neural plasticity
B)relies on compensatory communication
C)relies on preventing the patient from compensating
D)both A and C
Q3) Microcircuits:
A)are the "building blocks" of behavioral systems
B)are composed of several thousand synapses
C)form connections between the axons of adjacent neurons
D)are built on divergent connectivity only
Q4) Cortical neurons have both lateral and vertical connections to other neurons.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Adult Disorders of Language
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Q1) ___ characterizes alexia with agraphia.
A)Difficulty with short-term memory
B)Acalculia
C)Nonfluent aphasia
D)Anomia
Q2) A patient with dementia of the Alzheimer's type is likely to:
A)be able to keep track of daily events
B)have neurofibrillary tangles in the nerve cells
C)have a stable affect throughout the progression of the disease
D)be well oriented in time and space
E)none of the above
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of logorrhea?
A)accurate syntax
B)jargon
C)longer than normal phrase length
D)excessive verbal output
E)use of jargon
Q4) Transcortical aphasia can be classified as either fluent or nonfluent.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Pediatric Disorders of Language
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Q1) Which of the following is true in regard to cerebral dominance?
A)Laterality is limited to cerebral dominance for language.
B)Hand preference is a reliable indicator of hemispheric dominance for language.
C)Most right-handed people show a right ear advantage in dichotic listening tasks.
D)Inconsistency in lateral preferences has been consistently associated with language delays.
Q2) Myelination of the visual cortical projections occurs after that of the auditory cortical projections.
A)True
B)False
Q3) No significant delay in language development is found in:
A)pervasive developmental disorder
B)Asperger's syndrome
C)childhood disintegrative disorder
D)Rett syndrome
Q4) The most rapid growth of the brain is during the first year of life.
A)True
B)False
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