Wernicke's aphasia - DocNeuro https://docneuro.com/tag/wernickes-aphasia/ Up-to-date concepts in neurology Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:04:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Receptive aphasia https://docneuro.com/receptive-aphasia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=receptive-aphasia Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:04:26 +0000 https://docneuro.jz7sunfr-liquidwebsites.com/receptive-aphasia/ Patients with receptive aphasia can speak clearly (fluently) but cannot understand what others say and have difficulty putting together meaningful sentences. On exam this manifests as: Patients do not follow commands because they cannot understand the command. Some patients have “word salad,” in which speech is produced clearly but consists of a string of non-sensical […]

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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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