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]
Related to expressive aphasia:receptive aphasia,Wernicke's aphasia [ah-fa´zhah] atypeofspeech disorderconsistingof adefectorlossofthepowerofexpressionbyspeech,writing,orsigns,or ofcomprehensionofspokenorwrittenlanguage,duetodiseaseorinjuryofthebraincenters,suchasafterstroke syndromeontheleftside. ...
Despite this great loss and while suffering from dementia, and expressive aphasias from a prior stroke, he always managed to ask each person he met, "how they were feeling" and "how they were doing." His favorite expression was "that's a good one!" Despite his disabilities he continued ...
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 ...
Aphasia that has a gradual and slowly progressive onset occurs in the degenerative dementia syndromes of progressive aphasia and semantic dementia (Chapter 409). Treatment Speech therapy may be helpful for patients in the first few months after a brain injury that causes aphasia. Read more View...
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...
"This trauma can be due to a stroke in that region, tumor, any lesion or even dementia. If it is not permanent and comes and goes, it could suggest focal seizures." The type of aphasia can be determined by which area of the brain is damaged, Dr. Billakota notes, that damage to ...
Wernicke’s aphasia:Occurs due to the damage caused in the side region of language dominant area of the brain. The person will be able to make long sentences, but they will not have any meaning. Symptoms include: Improper reading and writing ...
Wendy Williams has beendiagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a medical condition that leaves patients struggling to understand language and communicate. The TV star was also diagnosed withfrontotemporal dementia. Williams had taken a leave from her talk show in 2021 while she dealt with health ...
Subsequently, this concept of central semantic disturbance was extended to semantic dementia, a progressive two-way loss of semantic fields in which both naming and comprehension are lost for even simple nouns. Most clinicians and researchers of aphasia agree that naming disturbances are the least ...