EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS.
A patient who produces fluent speech and has poor
comprehension of verbal material is most likely suffering
from - correct answer - Wernicke's aphasia
A patient with a lesion in the left superior temporal gyrus
is likely to suffer from Broca's Aphasia. - correct answer -
False
Activation of the AMPA receptors causes an
hyperpolarization of the postsynaptic cell. - correct
answer - False
At what age do children start to produce consistent
strings of consonant-vowel syllables? - correct answer -
between 5 and 10 months
Broca's aphasia is usually associated with lesions of -
correct answer - the left inferior frontal region