CD 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pragmatics, Edema, Perseveration

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May include: language development, aphasia, right hemisphere brain injury, traumatic brain injury, dementia. Language development through the lifespan: unless there is neuropathology. Adults continue to refine communication skills: use: Narrative improve until the 70"s: content. Some words fade and other are added. Deficits in accuracy and speech of word retrieval/naming: form. Continue to acquire some aspects of syntax. Complex sentence construction declines with advanced age. Executive functions: thinking, planning, organization, problem solving. Emotions and behavioral control: parietal personality. Perception, making sense of the world, arithmetic, spelling: occipital. Memory, understanding, language: spinal cord, other parts of the brain that are important: Associated with the processing of words that we hear being spoken. Connects to spinal cord: sensory nerves. Affects over 1 million people in the us. May affect listening, speaking, reading, writing: range in severity. Location/extent/age of brain injury, age/ general health of patient: patterns of behaviors can be used to categorize by type/ syndrome, expressive deficits.

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