Health / First Aid / Aphasia: Inability to create or understand speech. Aphasia is a disorder of the brain's speech center rather than the anatomical structures that are used to create speech (mouth and vocal cords) or understand it (ears). Aphasia is usually caused by an injury to the brain or from a stroke.
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Science / Psychiatry / Global Aphasia: both receptive and expressive aphasia present at the same time. MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Nominal Aphasia: difficulty in naming objects MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Receptive Aphasia: difficulty in comprehending word meanings or received speech or language MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Wernickes Aphasia: Loss of the ability to comprehend language coupled with production of inappropriate language. MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Brocas Aphasia: Loss of the ability to comprehend language coupled with production of inappropriate language. MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Jargon Aphasia: incoherent, meaningless, neologistic speech MORE