Neuroanatomy for Communication Disorders
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Course Introduction
Neuroanatomy for Communication Disorders provides an in-depth exploration of the structure and organization of the nervous system as it relates to human communication. The course examines the roles of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves in speech, language, hearing, and cognitive processes. Students will learn the neurobiological foundations of normal and disordered communication, including how damage or dysfunction in specific neural pathways can impact speech, language, voice, and swallowing. Through lectures, readings, and case studies, this course equips students with the foundational neuroanatomical knowledge essential for diagnosing and treating communication disorders in clinical practice.
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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 PET scan measures what type of brain activity?
A)electronic neural transmission
B)glucose metabolism
C)brain waves
D)the flow of cerebrospinal fluid
Answer: B
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) What is the function of the choroid plexus?
A)cell regeneration after brain injury
B)manufacture cerebrospinal fluid
C)formation of new ependymal cells
D)macrophage activity after cell death
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a likely effect of damage to the angular gyrus?
A)difficulty finding words
B)inability to identify the fingers
C)difficulty with arithmetic
D)inability to thread a needle
Answer: D
Q3) 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
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Chapter 3: Organization of the Nervous System II
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Q1) Which of these vesicles undergoes further division?
A)rhombencephalon
B)mesencephalon
C)prosencephalon
D)None of these vesicles further divides.
E)both A and C
Answer: E
Q2) The developing brain is most vulnerable to teratogens between __ of development.
A)1 and 3 weeks
B)4 and 5 months
C)3 and 16 weeks
D)16 and 24 weeks
Answer: C
Q3) 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
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Chapter 4: Neuronal Function in the Nervous System
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Q1) A neural impulse is transmitted across the synaptic cleft primarily through ___ means.
A)thermal
B)chemical
C)electrical
D)metabolic
Q2) The major inhibitory neurotransmitter is:
A)dopamine
B)epinephrine
C)GABA
D)glutamate
E)the neuropeptides
Q3) A(n)___ potential is propagated from the axon hillock to the terminal bouton.
A)action
B)resting
C)graded
D)depolarized
Q4) A graded potential results in the generation of an action potential.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Neurosensory Organization of Speech and Hearing
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Q1) In order for __ to be stimulated in the visual cortex,an object must be of a particular length.
A)simple receptive fields
B)complex receptive fields
C)hypercomplex fields
D)higher order hypercomplex fields
Q2) The __ acts as a transducer,changing physical stimuli into neural impulses.
A)auditory nerve
B)cochlea
C)ossicular chain
D)tympanic membrane
E)oval window
Q3) Which of these structures has been found to have few muscle spindles?
A)the intrinsic muscles of the tongue
B)the interarytenoids
C)the levator veli palatini
D)the lips
Q4) The auditory brainstem response tests the integrity of the auditory cortex.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Neuromotor Control of Speech
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Q1) Muscle spindles:
A)receive efferent innervation
B)provide afferent information on the state of muscle contraction
C)are found in abundance in fast twitch fibers
D)are found in abundance in muscles of articulation
E)both A and B
Q2) Which of the following areas would become more paralyzed after a unilateral lesion?
A)the diaphragm
B)the muscles that move the eye
C)the muscles of the lower face
D)the jaw
E)the laryngeal muscles
Q3) The cerebral cortex projects input to the __ of the basal ganglia.
A)globus palladus internal
B)putamen
C)globus palladus external
D)caudate nucleus
E)both B and D
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Chapter 7: The Cranial Nerves
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Q1) Rarely are both focal folds completely paralyzed as a result of an upper motor neuron lesion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A clinician places a few fingers on a patient's cheek and asks him to resist the pressure on his cheek by pushing his cheek with his tongue.The clinician is likely testing for:
A)the patient's ability to elevate the tongue
B)the lateral strength of the tongue
C)the strength of tongue protrusion
D)the ability to lower the tongue
Q3) The __ stage of deglutition is voluntary and is approximately 1 second in duration.
A)oral preparatory
B)oral
C)pharyngeal
D)esophageal
E)both B and C
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Chapter 8: Clinical Speech Syndromes of the Motor Systems
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Q1) Flaccid dysarthria may be the result of damage to the:
A)neuromuscular junction
B)muscle itself
C)cell body of the lower motor neuron
D)axon of the lower motor neuron
E)All of the above may cause flaccid dysarthria.
Q2) A unilateral lower motor neuron lesion could result in which of the following symptoms?
A)monotony of pitch
B)a sagging jaw
C)difficulty in protruding the tongue
D)difficulty in puckering the lips
E)both C and D
Q3) Forced inspiration and breathiness characterize the phonation of patients diagnosed with:
A)organic voice tremor
B)tardive dyskinesia
C)Huntington's chorea
D)dystonia
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Chapter 9: Pediatric Clinical Speech Syndromes: The Developing Brain
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Q1) Regarding primitive reflexes,there is a lack of consensus on:
A)which reflexes appear during the first year of life
B)how to best stimulate the primitive reflexes
C)when to test the reflexes
D)how primitive reflexes change over time
E)both B and D
Q2) A child with spastic cerebral palsy would exhibit:
A)an incoordination of upper and lower extremities
B)laborious,jerky,and slow movements
C)involuntary writhing movements
D)poor balance
Q3) Which of the following is true in regard to language development?
A)In the child,the brain increases its weight primarily through the formation of neural pathways.
B)Motor and sensory pathways develop before higher cortical pathways.
C)The central and peripheral pathways of speech and language are not fully developed until the child reaches school age.
D)The ability to imitate sounds depends solely upon the development of the auditory cortex.
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Chapter 10: Central Language Mechanism and Learning
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of the following structures is largely responsible for the sequencing of motor patterns used for speech?
A)the supramarginal gyrus
B)the angular gyrus
C)the primary motor cortex
D)Broca's area
E)Wernicke's area
Q3) The neocortex:
A)is relatively the same thickness over the entire brain
B)is the thickest at the sensory cortex
C)contains more neuroglia than neurons
D)is composed of five layers
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) Confabulation is a symptom of:
A)dementia of the Alzheimer's type
B)a confusional state
C)focal cortical dementia
D)subcortical dementia
E)primary progressive aphasia
Q2) Echolalia is a common symptom of:
A)transcortical sensory aphasia
B)Wernicke's aphasia
C)mixed transcortical aphasia
D)conduction aphasia
E)transcortical motor aphasia
Q3) ___ is characteristic of conduction aphasia.
A)Excessive verbal output
B)Impaired comprehension
C)Impaired repetition
D)Normal skill in writing
Q4) Anomia is a common symptom of aphasia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Pediatric Disorders of Language
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Q1) Which of the following is strong evidence for an innate left-hemisphere lateralization of language?
A)greater neuronal density in the left hemisphere
B)a larger left planum temporale in fetuses and newborns
C)greater glial cell volume in the left hemisphere
D)a higher level of complexity (i.e. ,axonal myelination)in the left hemisphere
E)both B and D
Q2) 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.
Q3) ___ is more predominant in females.
A)Autism spectrum disorder
B)Rett syndrome
C)Childhood disintegrative disorder
D)Asperger's syndrome
E)Both B and C are truE.
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