Copyright © 2008 Delmar. All rights reserved. Unit Nine Neurological Disorders in Adults.

Copyright © 2008 Delmar. All rights reserved.

Unit Nine

Neurological

Disorders in Adults


Chapter 35

Causes of Neurogenic

Speech, Language, Cognitive,

and Swallowing Disorders


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Strokes (CVAs)

• Third leading cause of death in United States

• Average age of stroke is 67 years

• Strokes cause brain damage due to a disruption of blood flow


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F.A.S.T

• A test to determine if a person is having a stroke:

• F: Face

• A: Arms

• S: Speech

• T: Time


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Occlusive Strokes

• Brain is deprived of blood due to blocked artery

• 80 percent of all strokes


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Cerebral Embolism

• Fragment of material travels through the circulatory system– Reaches an artery in the brain where it

occludes a blood vessel


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Cerebral Hemorrhage

• Rupture of a blood vessel sending blood into brain tissue

• 20 percent of strokes


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Multicultural Considerations

• Risk factors for strokes are generally the same for all ethnic and cultural groups


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Recovery from Strokes

• Most recovery occurs in the first weeks and months after a stroke


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Traumas

• Leading cause of death in people under 35 years

• One-half to two-thirds caused by motor vehicle accidents (MVA)

• Frontal lobe is most commonly damaged area


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Tumors

• An abnormal growth of tissue that can cause communication and swallowing problems


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Toxins

• Substances that poison or cause inflammation of the CNS


Chapter 36

The Aphasias


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Aphasia

• A deficit in language processing that may affect all input and output modalities


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Aphasia Classification

• Receptive aphasia (fluent)– Associated with lesions posterior to the

Fissure of Rolando

• Expressive aphasia (dysfluent)– Associated with lesions around Broca’s

area


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Language Characteristics of Fluent Aphasia

• Auditory and reading comprehension impairments

• Speaking rate of 100 to 200 words per minute

• Normal articulation

• Syntactic errors

• Little content or meaning


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Wernicke’s Aphasia

• Fluent aphasia caused by damage to Wernicke’s area in posterior superior left temporal lobe

• See Figure 36-1


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Anomia

• Impaired ability to remember names of people, places, or things


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Paraphasias

• Literal/phonemic– Substitutions of intended sounds for

sounds in words

• Verbal/semantic– Word errors, which may be related to the

intended word


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Paraphasias

• Neologisms – Combining C and V to make new “words”


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Anomic Aphasia

• Persistent and severe difficulty retrieving names


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Conduction Aphasia

• Rare syndrome

• Patients have difficulty repeating multisyllabic words, phrases, and sentences


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Transcortical Sensory Aphasia

• Fluent aphasia with damage to left posterior temporoparietal region

• Patients have impaired comprehension and naming combined with echolalia


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Language Characteristics of Nonfluent Aphasia

• Relatively good auditory comprehension

• Difficulty initiating speech

• Reduced speech rate

• Effort when speaking

• Abnormal intonation and prosody


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Broca’s Aphasia

• Nonfluent aphasia

• Site of lesion in lower posterior region of the left frontal lobe in the premotor cortex

• Patient may have right-sided weakness or loss of movement


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Transcortical Motor Aphasia

• Relatively good auditory comprehension

• Speech is nonfluent, agrammatic, and telegraphic

• Damage is to frontal lobe– Not including Broca’s area


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Global Aphasia

• Combination of fluent and nonfluent aphasia

• Usually caused by occlusion of left middle cerebral artery


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Assessment of Aphasia

• Receptive language

• Expressive language

• Nonverbal communication

• Reading and writing


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Standardized Tests

• A variety of standardized tests are available

• Subtests from a variety of tests may be administered due to time constraints


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Principles of Therapy

• Select functional behaviors

• Begin with easier tasks

• Provide feedback

• Train patient to self-monitor and self-correct

• Provide family education


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Approaches to Therapy

• Restorative approach – Focus on improving underlying processes

that are impaired

• Compensatory approach– Provide strategies for persistent deficits


Chapter 37

Cognitive Disorders


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Cognitive Impairments

• Impaired ability to process and use incoming information


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Cognitive Disorders

• Three most common etiologies:– Right-hemisphere damage (RHD)– Traumatic brain injury (TBI)– Dementia


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Right-Hemisphere Functions

• Arousal and attention

• Orientation

• Visual perception

• Emotional experiences

• Temporal order

• Cognition


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RHD: Visual Spatial Impairments

• Difficulty associating objects that can be seen with their spatial relationships


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RHD: Attention Impairments

• Difficulty staying focused on tasks

• Shifting attention from one task to another


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RHD: Communication• Literal interpretation of language

• Difficulty with social aspects – Turn-taking, topic maintenance

• Naming problems


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Assessment

• Similar procedures to those used with patients with aphasia


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Principles of Therapy

• Focus on functional outcomes:– Attention– Memory– Orientation to time, place, etc.– Pragmatics


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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

• Closed Head Injury

• Open Head Injury


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Closed Head Injury (CHI)

• Most common type of TBI

• Skull receives impact and may be fractured but it is not penetrated

• Two-thirds classified as “mild” with no loss of consciousness (LOC) or less than 30 minutes LOC


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CHI Impairments

• Difficulty concentrating under distracting conditions

• Multitasking

• Attention, memory, and higher level cognitive difficulties


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Open Head Injuries

• Skull and brain are penetrated by impact or projectiles

• Often have significant impairments


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Cognitive Impairments of TBI

• Attention

• Memory

• Orientation

• Reasoning and problem-solving

• Executive functions


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Language Impairment of TBI

• Auditory comprehension

• Anomia

• Pragmatics

• Reading and writing


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Principles of Assessment for TBI

• Many patients may not be immediately testable

• Assessment results one day might differ the next day if patient changes


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Principles of Therapy for TBI

• Environmental control

• Behavioral management

• Orientation therapy

• Cognitive retraining

• Compensatory training


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Dementia

• A syndrome caused by acquired neurological diseases that involves intellectual, cognitive, and personality deterioration


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Alzheimer’s Disease

• Most common progressive dementia

• Typically begins after age 65

• Decline in intellect, memory, communication, and personality


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Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

• Stage I – Mild – Forgetfulness

• Stage II– Moderate – Confusion stage

• Stage III– Severe – Terminal stage


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Assessment of People with Dementia

• People in stages I and II of Alzheimer’s are testable


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Principles of Therapy for People with Dementia

• Maximize current cognitive-linguistic abilities

• Slow the deterioration of those abilities

• Goals must be functional


Chapter 38

Motor

Speech Disorders


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Motor Speech Disorders

• Neurological impairments affecting the motor planning, programming, neuromuscular control and/or execution of speech


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Dysarthria

• Group of speech disorders – Characterized by weakness in the muscles

that control respiration, phonation, resonation, and articulation


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Myasthenia Gravis

• Chronic fatigue and muscle weakness

• Occurs in females more than males


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Parkinson’s Disease

• Gradual deterioration of nerve centers in the brain

• Speech and swallowing can be affected


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Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis

• Rapidly progressive degeneration of motor neurons that run from the brain to the muscles for control of movement

• Males affected more than females


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Impaired Respiratory System

• Short inhalations decrease air for speech

• Short phrases

• Inadequate voice loudness


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Impaired Phonatory System

• Breathy voice quality

• Decreased loudness


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Impaired Resonatory System

• Hypernasal resonance is heard in speech

• Decrease in speech intelligibility


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Impaired Articulatory System

• Imprecise articulation of consonants


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Types of Dysarthria

• Spastic

• Ataxic

• Flaccid

• Hyperkinetic

• Hypokinetic

• Mixed


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Assessment of Dysarthria

• Case history/medical history

• Evaluation of the speech systems– Respiratory, phonatory, resonatory,

articulatory

• Instrumental analysis


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Principles of Therapy for Dysarthria

• Maximize the effectiveness, efficiency, and naturalness of communication


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Apraxia of Speech

• Deficit in neural motor planning and programming of articulatory muscles for volunteer movements for speech in the absence of muscle weakness


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Characteristics of Apraxia of Speech

• Variable articulation errors

• Sound substitutions more frequent

• Errors increase with length of utterance

• “Groping” behavior

• “Islands” of fluent speech


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Assessment and Therapy of Apraxia of Speech• Evaluation of the speech systems

• Primary goal of therapy is to maximize effectiveness, efficiency, and naturalness of communication


Chapter 39

Emotional and

Social Effects of

Neurological Disorders


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Emotional and Social Effects

• Entire family is affected by a stroke

• Family systems theory is applicable to clients and families when a neurological disorder has occurred


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Emotional Effects

• Self-image/self concept changes

• Families go through the stages of grief


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Social Effects

• Social lives are altered or diminished

• Jobs may be lost

• Financial expenses due to loss of work and cost of medical care

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