Question 1

what is a good recovery after stroke loss of speech and orientation/memory?

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Question is unclear: A good recovery would consist of complete return of speech and orientation but that's not what you're asking, no doubt. Could you please re-phrase?

Question 2

can an aphasia from a head injury that involves reading heal on its own with time?

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May take time: A head injury tends to slowly improve and recover over 18-24 months, but a good speech therapist can accelerate your abilities and outcomes, so you can cope far better.

Question 3

what is aphasia?

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Loss of language: Aphasia is an inability to properly use language, which can be caused by stroke, tumor, dementia, or many other diseases.  There are many subtypes of aphasia, depending on what type of language processes are affected.

Question 4

what is wernicke's aphasia?

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Wernike Aphasia: Speech is fluent but often degenerates into random hard to follow "streams of consciousness, which may be peppered with non-words or made up words. The speech also fails to provide good answers to questions posed to them, suggesting that they do not understand what is said to them. Hence there is difficulty in comprehension rather than articulation, hence the term Receptive Aphasia.

Question 5

what are the types of aphasia?

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3 major classes: There are many types of aphasia that can be grouped into three major headings: there are the motor type, the most common being broca's aphasia, the receptive type, most commonly wernicke's aphasis. The third is the dissociative or disconnection syndromes. These occur when there is an apparent interruption of association areas  to the cortical language areas.

Question 6

best way way to treat aphasia?

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Depends: If you mean aphasia from stroke, it depends on severity and pt age. Younger brain, more plastic, better able to reorganize, milder aphasia, better recovery. Global aphasia, elderly pt, prognosis is poor. Lots of speech therapy. Some drugs have shown possible benefit but as far as i know, none has been accepted as routinely recommended by rehab specialists. Progressive aphasia is another story.

Question 7

what research is out on aphasia?

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Aphasia: There is an enormous literature out there on aphasia which was originally described in the 1860s. The origin of aphasia and the brain location where it occurs is now well described. It most commonly occurs as a result of trauma or a stroke or a bleed in the brain.  Research in treating these issues still has a long way to go in achieving any sort of brain regeneration.

Question 8

how does aphasia affect language?

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Aphasia: Aphasia means impaired language function. It may affect the comprehension or expression or both.

Question 9

what does it mean if i have aphasia?

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Aphasia: "lost for words" is general meaning. Could relate to some neurologic problems or medications. There are several types of aphasia. Best resource is neurologist who can diagnose types.

Question 10

what exercises improve receptive aphasia?

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Receptive aphasia: There are no real exercises but a consultation with a speech therapist might be helpful here - usually it is just time and seeing where the patient ends up after the stroke or whatever caused the receptive aphasia

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