A 33-year-old member asked:
what is aphasia?
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Dr. Julian Bragg answered
16 years experience Neurology
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.
Answered on Apr 9, 2015
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Dr. Ramin AmirNovin answered
20 years experience Neurosurgery
Speaking trouble: Aphasia is a generic inability to properly speak. There are 3 basic types: 1. Receptive: can't understand speech. 2. Expressive: can't produce speech (can't speak). 3. Conductive: a mix of inability to speak and/or understand speech.
Answered on Feb 8, 2016
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Dr. Bennett Machanic answered
51 years experience Neurology
SPEECH PROBLEM: Loss of ability to express or comprehend speech may be due to various brain problems, and could be secondary to a stroke, dementias, head injury or br ... Read More
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Dr. Alan Ali answered
31 years experience Psychiatry
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. Th ... Read More
A 32-year-old member asked:
Dr. James Goodrich answered
38 years experience Neurosurgery
Aphasia: Their is not much available in the way of software for treating aphasia. The best treatment is work with a speech therapist for speech training.
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Dr. James Goodrich answered
38 years experience Neurosurgery
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 i ... Read More
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