Question

Aphasia 

A. Is an impairment of language skills without motor paralysis, loss of hearing or vision. 

B. Implies impairment of consciousness. 

C. Is called motor aphasia if the patient understands what the speech sounds and symbols mean but lacks the higher motor skills needed to express them. 

D. Is called sensory aphasia if the patient does not understand the meaning of the words he hears, sees and uses. 

E. Usually results from right-sided cortical damage.

Answer 1

A. True It is a cortical dysfunction. 

B. False Level of consciousness is an independent entity. 

C. True It may start with an inability to say the names of familiar objects but end up with loss of virtually all verbal communication skills. 

D. True Patients with sensory aphasia tend to talk rubbish since they are unaware of the errors in their use of language. 

E. False Language skills are carried in the left hemisphere in right and some left-handed people.