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	Aphasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aphasia is a loss or impairment of the ability to produce or comprehend language, due to brain damage.
		Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language.
		Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, often as the result of a stroke or traumatic brain injury or other head injury, but it may also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aphasia (1357 words)

	Receptive aphasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Receptive aphasia, also known as Wernicke's aphasia, "Fluent aphasia" or "sensory aphasia" in clinical neuropsychology and cognitive neuropsychology, is a type of aphasia often (but not always) caused by neurological damage to Wernicke's area in the brain.
		In Wernicke's aphasia, the area lost is highlighted in green.
		Patients who recover from Wernicke's aphasia report that while aphasic they found the speech of others to be unintelligible, and even though they knew they were speaking, they could neither stop themselves nor understand what they had just said.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Receptive_aphasia (252 words)

	Aphasia
		Aphasia is a neurological disorder caused by damage to the portions of the brain that are responsible for language.
		Aphasia is not a disease, but a symptom of brain damage.
		The outcome of aphasia is difficult to predict given the wide range of variability of the condition.
	www.med.umich.edu /1libr/aha/umaphasia.htm (466 words)

	Dorlands Medical Dictionary
		a form of receptive aphasia in which sounds are heard but convey no meaning to the person affected, due to disease of the subcortical pathways leading to the main auditory center of the brain, or disease of the center itself; called also acoustic a.
		aphasia characterized by a lack of recognition of the full significance of words and phrases, or faulty use of words, phrases, or sentences; words heard, seen, spoken, or written are misunderstood or used incorrectly in place of other words in the same class.
		a type of conduction aphasia believed to be caused by a lesion of a pathway between the speech center and other cortical centers, but often reflecting large lesions in brain areas other than the perisylvian region of the hemisphere dominant for speech and language.
	www.mercksource.com /pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_a_52zPzhtm (1864 words)

	Aphasia
		Aphasia is the loss of the ability to speak or understand speech or written language.
		Receptive aphasia affects the input side and "the ability to understand spoken or written language may be partially or totally lost" (1).
		Presently, aphasia located in Broca's region is associated with those who have problems in language production, whereas aphasia located in Wernicke's area is assigned to those who are able to produce speech, but have trouble with comprehension (2).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro99/web3/Choe.html (1307 words)

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		Wernicke's aphasia, an ability to produce speech without the ability to understand it; Broca's aphasia, which is the reverse of Wernicke's; transcortical aphasia, in which word usage or word comprehension is impaired, while the reverse is intact; and connection aphasia, in which both understanding and production of individual words is preserved, while repetition is impaired.
		Those with receptive aphasia suffer from difficulties with auditory comprehension and those with expressive aphasia are, as is Teter's mother, challenged with speech as a transmission of language and this often results in an onset of depression (Spenser, Tompkins, & Schulz, 1997).
		The stroke or accident survivor with aphasia may overcome depression with support from family, like David Douglas Allard (2003) who states in his essay on his battle with aphasia after a stroke at the age of twenty four that "quit is a word that never entered [his] mind" (Allard, 2003).
	www.humboldt.edu /~morgan/aph_s04.htm (4738 words)

	Aphasia: The Cruelest Language Barrier by Gary Cordingley
		The preceding scenario, in which comprehension of language is impaired, is called a receptive aphasia and is associated with injury to the upper portion of the brain's left temporal lobe, roughly adjacent to the temple and top of the ear.
		In receptive aphasia the affected individuals can still produce sentences, but, in an odd twist of fate, they can't make sense of or properly monitor their own words, so their output is riddled with errors.
		Sometimes patients with aphasia are perceived as "confused" in the sense of having a delirium or dementia.
	www.timetoteach.co.uk /genAphasiaTheCruelestLanguageBarrier.html (1028 words)

	What is Aphasia? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is an inability or decreased ability to understand others or express oneself.
		Aphasia is caused by damage to one or more of the language areas of the brain.
		Aphasia therapy strives to improve an individual's ability to communicate by helping the person to use remaining abilities to restore language abilities as much as possible, to compensate for language problems, and to leam other methods of communication.
	www.northeastmedical.org /hospital_depts/audio_speech/aphasia.html (317 words)

	Section 3.6 - CaregiverNJ Caregivers Guide - Speech Changes
		People who have recovered from aphasia report the feeling of being thrust into a foreign country, where they cannot understand what others are saying nor be understood.
		Persons with Broca's aphasia know what they want to say but are unable to find the words to express their thoughts.
		Wemicke's aphasia or receptive aphasia is characterized by the difficulty to understand spoken and written language.
	www.state.nj.us /caregivernj/basic/guide/pg3.6-speech.shtml (1505 words)

	Communication Sciences & Disorders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is a language disorder caused by brain injury in which one or more aspects of language comprehension and production are impaired to varying degrees.
		Broca's aphasia, also known as nonfluent aphasia or expressive aphasia, is associated with left-hemisphere strokes and is characterized by effortful, limited verbal output and may be accompanied by right-sided body weakness.
		Wernicke's aphasia, also known as fluent aphasia or receptive aphasia, is associated with left-hemisphere strokes and is characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and may be accompanied by right-sided body weakness.
	www.nau.edu /hp/dept/speech/clinic/aphasia.html (228 words)

	Written Portfolio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia: communication disorder caused by brain damage and characterized by complete or impartial impairment of language comprehension, formulation, and use; excludes disorders associated with primary sensory deficits, general mental deterioration, or psychiatric disorders.
		Wernicke’s Aphasia: A fluent, predominately receptive aphasia characterized by varying degrees of impaired auditory comprehension, jargon speech, word-finding problems and paraphasias are common.
		Receptive Disorder: A disturbance in the perception and understanding of spoken and written language.
	tiger.towson.edu /users/bfrane1/writeval.htm (1588 words)

	Team projects on www for Biological Basis of Behavior - 2001
		Wernicke's aphasia that is due to stroke usually improves in time, sometimes to the point where the deficits can be detected only by asking the patient to repeat unfamiliar words from dictation, to name unusual objects or parts of objects, to spell difficult words, or to write complex self-generated sentences.
		The three cortical levels for the reception and interpretation of the auditory impulses are not as clearly defined as those for the reception and interpretation of visual impulses.
		Wernicke's Aphasia: Analysis Because the superior temporal gyrus is a region of auditory association cortex, and because a comprehension deficit is so prominent in Wernicke's aphasia, this disorder has been characterized as a receptive aphasia.
	www.humboldt.edu /~morgan/temp_s01.htm (6098 words)

	Aphasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is a disorder that results from damage to language centers of the brain.
		The most common cause of aphasia is stroke, but gunshot wounds, blows to the head, other traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, and other sources of brain damage can also cause aphasia.
		It usually requires extra effort for the person with aphasia to understand spoken messages, as if he or she is trying to comprehend a foreign language.
	www.asha.org /public/speech/disorders/Aphasia_info.htm (1737 words)

	Receptive Aphasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The fact that sufferers of this type of aphasia exhibit semantic priming and seem to be able to perceive phonemes (individual sound units in speech) seems to indicate that their language deficit might be at the sentence processing and/or discourse processing level [1].
		In general, receptive aphasics are found to have suffered damage to the posterior region of the left superior temporal gyrus [7].
		As is often the case in conduction aphasia, the specific brain areas affected by the injury or damage determines the nature of the linguistic disability.
	www.haverford.edu /psych/courses/p217/web/aphasia/receptive.htm (559 words)

	Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is a disturbance of comprehension and formulation of language.
		Aphasia is produced by damage of cortical regions which are related to language functions.
		Generally the clinical diagnosis of the aphasia type is made by the expert in a free interview.
	fuzzy.iau.dtu.dk /aphasia.nsf/htmlmedia/summary.html (886 words)

	Police Chief Magazine - View Article
		One of the reasons that aphasia is not better known is that people with aphasia are among the disability groups least able to advocate for themselves.
		Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that impairs a person’s ability to process language, but it does not affect their intelligence.
		Most persons with aphasia will present their aphasia identity card; nevertheless, it is always considerate to ask the person having difficulty in communicating whether he or she has aphasia and whether he or she is carrying a card.
	policechiefmagazine.org /magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=465&issue_id=122004 (2176 words)

	healthyNJ--Information for Healthy Living--Aphasia
		Aphasia is a partial or complete loss of the ability to express or understand spoken or written language because of damage to the language areas of the brain.
		Aphasia is loss of the ability to express or understand language, but it takes many forms and may be partial or complete.
		Aphasia may involve loss of only the ability to comprehend written words (alexia) or the ability to recall or say the names of objects (anomia).
	www.healthynj.org /dis-con/aphasia/main.htm (374 words)

	APHASIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia (uh-fa-zhuh) is when a person loses the ability to talk, understand speech, read and/or write.
		Causes: Aphasia is caused by an injury to the brain.
		Receptive aphasia is when you have trouble understanding speech or written words.
	www.medformation.com /ac/mm_qdis.nsf/qd/nd1629g.htm (482 words)

	Language Miniatures 76: Aphasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Damage to one of these areas results in a distinctly different form of aphasia than damage to the other, which is how they were identified in the first place.
		Characteristic of sufferers from receptive aphasia is that despite fluent grammatical speech in which speed, inflection and intonation are all normal, they have considerable difficulty retrieving and recognizing the meanings of words.
		Expressive and receptive aphasia are not mutually exclusive, and many patients exhibit symptoms of both at the same time.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/aphasia.htm (826 words)

	NAA: Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is caused by damage to the language areas of the brain, most commonly from stroke (as in my case).
		The NAA makes people with aphasia, their families, support systems, and healthcare professionals aware of resources to recover lost skills to the greatest extent possible, to compensate for skills that will not be recovered, and to minimize the psychosocial impact of the language impairment.
		Persons with aphasia differ about whether it is helpful to fill in the word the patient may be struggling to say.
	www.aphasia.org /newsletter/20040303.html (1242 words)

	Aphasia Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is a disorder of the brain, always from brain trauma and most often a result of stroke, which affects the ability to communicate
		Fluent aphasia, also known as Wernicke's aphasia (or receptive aphasia) is typified by a person speaking in long sentences that have no meaning, unnecessary or made up words; difficulty understanding others
		Many people with aphasia are prone to depression, hopelessness and a sense of isolation.
	www.adleraphasiacenter.org /facts.shtml (533 words)

	What aphasia is
		For someone with expressive aphasia, many or all words are "on the tip of their tongue".
		Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, frequently the result of a stroke or head injury, but it may also develop slowly as in the case of a brain tumor.
		Definition of aphasia: there's the comprehensive definition from the NIH and the brief definition, and
	strokesupport.com /info/aphasia/what_aphasia_is.htm (345 words)

	WHOI - Healthbeat: Aphasia Clinic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is a communication disorder in which an individual may be unable to produce or understand language.
		Receptive aphasia affects the ability to recognize or understand spoken or written language.
		Aphasia may also be caused by head injury, brain tumor or brain infection.
	www.hoinews.com /news/features/3/1733166.html (415 words)

	Atlanta Aphasia Association, Inc.
		To organize and provide resources to individuals with aphasia and those involved with aphasia at various levels such as caregiving, providing therapeutic and healthcare services, and research.
		To create a service in the Atlanta area that educates the community about aphasia through providing education resources, discussion and communication about research advances in stroke and aphasia.
		For the purpose of providing education to the community about adults living with aphasia and the need for vocational, social, educational, funding, and research opportunities for these individuals.
	www.atlantaaphasia.org (384 words)

	Medical Expert
		Aphasia is a difficulty with speech, either hearing the spoken word (receptive aphasia) or speaking itself.
		Aphasia can have many causes, from severe mental retardation, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or (as in your mother's case) there is sometimes no identifiable cause, and the person is diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia.
		Since Alzheimer's disease is a frequent cause of aphasia, and since Aricept is frequently helpful in patients with Alzheimer's disease, many patients with primary progressive aphasia will be given Aricept as a trial.
	www.medinfosource.com /expert/exp3013100d.html (246 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is a disorder not a disease, and it is caused by damage to the part of the brain that is responsible for language.
		Some ways of communication for people with Aphasia are to use things like a communication board, books, or pictures.
		Therapy for Aphasia usually starts with individual therapy and then as the disorder begins to decrease they use group therapy.
	homepages.wmich.edu /~j3slenk/Aphasia.html (326 words)

	Aphasia and Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aphasia is definitively a language disorder that commonly results from either stroke or brain damage to a specific area of the brain.
		Broca's Aphasia is caused by damage to Broca's area in the brain which is located in the left temporal lobe above the Sylvian fissuew.
		Symptoms include an inability for the afflicted person to express themself in complex sentences and agrammatism, a loss of the ability to use participles such as "and" or "the".
	pages.slc.edu /~ebj/fys/student_pages/aphasia.html (572 words)

	Wernicke's Aphasia
		Carl Wernicke, a German neuro-psychiatrist (1848-1905), was the first to describe what was first known as sensory aphasia, later to become Wernicke's aphasia, named after it's discoverer.
		If the Wernicke's area is damaged, usually due to traumatic brain injury, an individual will have serious problems with their language.
		Other names that you might see for this type of aphasia are sensory aphasia, receptive aphasia, and central aphasia.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/a/j/ajm388 (125 words)

	Receptive Aphasia Example (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is an example of an adult with Receptive Aphasia speaking.
		The difficulty, however, with receptive aphasia is that the speaker has little comprehension of what she is saying herself!
		She assumes that she said what she intended to say, but due to the lack of feedback, she is often unaware that her speech has degenerated seriously.
	www.csun.edu /~vcoao0el/webct/de361s52_folder/recAphasiamov.html (143 words)

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