Broca's aphasia - DocNeuro https://docneuro.com/tag/brocas-aphasia/ Up-to-date concepts in neurology Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:48:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Expressive aphasia https://docneuro.com/expressive-aphasia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=expressive-aphasia Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:48:33 +0000 https://docneuro.jz7sunfr-liquidwebsites.com/expressive-aphasia/ Patients with expressive aphasia have difficultly speaking fluently, although they can understand what other people say when they are spoken to. On exam this manifests as: Patients can follow commands (as long as that does not require speaking). Depending on the severity of the aphasia, patients have difficulty producing speech ranging from some word finding […]

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]]> Classifying aphasia https://docneuro.com/classifying-aphasia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=classifying-aphasia Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:39:49 +0000 https://docneuro.jz7sunfr-liquidwebsites.com/classifying-aphasia/ Aphasia is defined as a loss of the ability to understand or produce speech, usually caused by damage to the cerebrum. It is important to clinically classify the type of aphasia a patient has, as this helps localize the lesion and has implications for therapy. It is first important to distinguish aphasia from dysarthria. Dysarthria […]

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