Question

A 77-year-old woman was cooking in the kitchen when she collapsed onto the floor. Her daughter called an ambulance and the woman was taken to the emergency room. She had suffered a stroke, and slowly regained consciousness over the next two days. However, when she woke up, she had the following signs and symptoms:

- paralysis of the right face and arm
- loss of sensation to touch on the skin of the right face and arm
- inability to answer questions but ability to understand what was said to her
- ability to write down her thoughts more easily than to speak them

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Questions:

1. Based upon the patient's symptoms, which cerebral artery was blocked? (Be Specific)

2. Why was she paralyzed in the right face and arm?

3. What is the name of her language disorder, and what caused it?

4. Was this woman's dominant or nondominant hemisphere damaged?

Answer 1

1. The left Internal carotid artery or the middle cerebral artery was blocked.

2. She was left paralyzed in the right face and arm because her left cerebral hemisphere was affected.

3. Broca's aphasia name of the language disorder . This disorder is caused by damage to Broca's area of brain which   is in the frontal lobe, usually on the left side. It is a part of the brain responsible for speech and for motor movement, its dysfunction results in lamguage problems.

4.womans dominant hemisphere was damaged because its the part where the areas of the brain that control speech and mathematical abilities are located.