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Examples of aphasia

aphasia
A second empirical problem is presented by patients with severe aphasia, who can carry out numerous complex tasks.
Some data suggest that the type of script has an effect on the oral reading performance of patients with bilingual aphasia.
And the evidence from aphasia suggests that at least many aspects of cognition can continue to operate normally once language has been removed.
This description bears close resemblance to the speech of aphasia patients who have suffered severe left-hemispheric stroke.
Over the remainder of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cases of children with "infantile aphasia" or "congenital aphasia" were reported.
In aphasia (and dementia) there is evidence for a double dissociation1 between nouns and verbs that is linked to the constellation of the lesions.
At admission, 13% of the patients had impaired consciousness, 32% had aphasia, and 68% had motor deficits.
Information regarding the time course of language comprehension in aphasia is obviously crucial to our understanding of the underlying pathology.
How is each language lost, in terms of aphasia after brain damage in bilinguals, or in terms of the natural attrition of a disused language?
These ' 'lesion' ' studies, carried out to investigate the clinical features of bilingual aphasia, have provided a complex pattern of results.
However, the inclusion of additional, previously identified variables and results of other lines of research would improve the knowledge about this category of aphasia.
Patients were randomly assigned to a study group receiving experimental training for limb apraxia or a control group receiving conventional treatment for aphasia.
It is common in cognitive neuropsychological studies of lexical processing in aphasia to report task effects for individual cases separately.
Severe aphasia may make formal assessment of mood and cognitive impairment impossible.
In our view the extant evidence for an effect of script on the written language processing of patients with bilingual aphasia is relatively weak.
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