has multiple aetiologies, including stroke (the most frequent), head trauma, encephalitis (especially in cases of frontal and/or temporal lobe involvement, as in herpes simplex encephalitis), brain tumours, and dementia (especially Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal dementia, in which aphasia may ...
the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain. [1865–70; < Greek: speechlessness =a-a-6+phat(ós)spoken, v. adj. ofphánaito speak +-ia-ia]
Whereas the semantic and nonfluent variants are considered forms of frontotemporal dementia, the logopenic variant involves atrophy of the left temporoparietal junction, and is most often a consequence of Alzheimer's disease pathology. The tendency of each variant to associate with distinct histo...
Closely related to aphasia are the family of disorders called apraxias (disorders of learned or skilled movements), agnosias (disorders of recognition), acalculias (disorders of calculation ability), and more global neurobehavioral deficits such as dementia and delirium. Such related syndromes may ...
This book covers a wide range of topics, from infant babbling to language in dementia, from pragmatic disabilities to cleft palate articulation, and from slow potentials to nasalance measures. S Peppe,K Bryan,J Maxim,... 被引量: 4发表: 1997年 加载更多来源...
Related to expressive aphasia:receptive aphasia,Wernicke's aphasia [ah-fa´zhah] atypeofspeech disorderconsistingof adefectorlossofthepowerofexpressionbyspeech,writing,orsigns,or ofcomprehensionofspokenorwrittenlanguage,duetodiseaseorinjuryofthebraincenters,suchasafterstroke syndromeontheleftside. ...
The term may be restricted to acquired disorders of language caused by focal brain lesions such as stroke, or more broadly applied to developmental language disorders or impairments due to diffuse brain damage such as head trauma or dementia....
Semantic dementia and fluent primary progressive aphasia: two sides of the same coin? 词义性痴呆和流利的原发性进行性失语: 同一硬币的两面? 1. I began to aphasia. 我开始失语。 —— 精选例句 ◎ 比邻 bi0.cn 2. There are disorders of language like aphasia. ...
arteries penetrating deep into the brain become blocked by atherosclerosis, causing areas of surrounding tissue to lose their blood supply. The tissue may then wither, creating minute holes, calledlacunes. A succession of transient ischemic attacks over the years can riddle the brain, causingdementia...
This study used patients with primary progressive aphasia, a clinical dementia syndrome characterized by primary deficits in language, to investigate the ... Jonas,K.,Olofsson,... - 《Brain》 被引量: 48发表: 2013年 Longitudinal gray matter contraction in three variants of primary progressive aphas...