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Aphasia is a loss or impairment of the ability to produce or comprehend language, due to brain damage. It is usually a result of damage to the language centres of the brain and can be caused by a stroke or physical injury. Depending on the area and extent of the damage, someone may be able to speak but not write, or vice versa, or understand more complex sentences than they can produce. The brains of young children with brain damage sometimes restructure themselves to use different areas for speech processing, and regain lost function; adult brains are less "plastic" and lack this ability.
Any of the following can be considered aphasia:
- inability to comprehend speech
- inability to read (alexia)
- inability to write (agraphia)
- inability to speak, without muscle paralysis
- inability to form words
- inability to name objects (anomia)
- poor enunciation
- inappropriate speech, use of jargon or wrong words
- inability to repeat a phrase
- persistent repetition of phrases
- other language impairment
The common types of aphasia are
A few less common varieties include
Sources:
ms:Aphasia
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