CMD 460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aphasia, Anomic Aphasia, Conduction Aphasia
22 Sep 2016
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Aphasia is an acquired language disorder due to language-dominant hemisphere damage that impacts all aspects of language; reading and writing problems, verbal memory, attention, etc. Anterior lesions tend to produce nonfluent speech whereas posterior lesions tend to produce fluent speech. Broca"s aphasia is marked by non-fluency but comprehension is mostly intact, while wernicke"s aphasia is marked by fluency but deficits in auditory comprehension. Conduction aphasia patients have a marked difficulty in repetition. Anomic aphasia patients have difficulty with producing words in speech and writing word retrieval difficulties. There is a need for reorganization in the family, as well as problems of loneliness and immobility. The importance of participation in support groups and language or social groups is the most significant social consequence.
