aphasias

Beginning with the work of Broca and Wernicke in the 19th century, a popular view has been that language is localized to certain areas of the brain (see Fig. 3), almost always the left hemisphere, [19] and that it is subject to characteristic patterns of breakdown, called ˜aphasias.™

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

Anomic aphasias can be mild the above example of the physician who had trouble only with medical terms or severe.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

In motor aphasias there is an impairment in the fluent and clear articulation of language, whereas in motor aprosodia there is an impairment in the emotional expression of language.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

In the slowly progressive aphasias, of late so carefully studied, the words first lost are those of things and acts most familiar to the patient, while the words that persist longest in the wreckage of the speech-centers are generally words that do not designate the things of sense.

Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

Downs syndrome) children's language development stops around puberty; (ii) that whereas very young children are able to (re) learn language after aphasias produced by massive left-hemisphere trauma (including hemispherectomy), aphasias in older children and adults are typically not reversible; and (iii) that so-called ˜wild children,™ viz., those who grow up with no or little exposure to human language, exhibit severely compromised language skills.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

Repetition is poor in Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasias.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993