A 28-year-old male asked:
what is the definition or description of: difficulty finding words?
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Dr. Alan Ali answered
32 years experience Psychiatry
Can't find words: Also called dysnomia or anomic aphasia, is caused by damage to temporal or parietal lobes of the brain such as stroke or trauma.
Answered on Dec 23, 2012
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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
25 years experience Psychiatry
Speech difficulty: "A speech disorder is an impairment of the articulation of speech sounds, fluency and/or voice." See: http://www.asha.org/policy/RP1993-00208/
A 33-year-old male asked:
Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
25 years experience Psychiatry
Writing difficulty: Dysgraphia can be associated with a learning disorder that affects writing. There are other possible causes for difficulty writing.
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Difficulty smelling: Difficulty smelling = diminished olfaction.
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Dr. Andrew Berry answered
14 years experience Clinical Psychology
Relaxing: This is when anxiety or tension is so overpowering to the patient that he or she cannot release the tension in order to be able to relax.
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