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  2. Anomic aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Doing a hearing test first is important, in case the patient cannot clearly hear the words or sentences needed in the speech repetition test. [21] In the speech tests, the person is asked to repeat a sentence with common words; if the person cannot identify the word, but he or she can describe it, then the person is highly likely to have anomic ...

  3. Minnesota experts share tips to ease pandemic 'brain fog' - AOL

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    Apr. 2—Are you forgetting words mid-sentence, straining to make small decisions or focus on your work? You may be experiencing pandemic-induced brain fog. "It can feel like you're overloaded or ...

  4. Warning Signs of Cognitive Problems to Know, According ... - AOL

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    Problems with language, such as forgetting words, using incorrect words (calling the stove “the cooking thing”), or difficulty tracking a conversation. Disorientation. Losing or misplacing items.

  5. Tip of the tongue - Wikipedia

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    William James was the first psychologist to describe the tip of the tongue phenomenon, although he did not label it as such. The term "tip of the tongue" is borrowed from colloquial usage, [2] and possibly a calque from the French phrase avoir le mot sur le bout de la langue ("having the word on the tip of the tongue").

  6. Memory lapses: What’s normal, what’s not - AOL

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    Forgetting words: Mayo Clinic Signs of Alzheimer’s and dementia: The Alzheimer’s Association Tips for dealing with forgetfulness: National Institute on Aging. Show comments.

  7. Thought blocking - Wikipedia

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    Thought blocking is a neuropsychological symptom expressing a sudden and involuntary silence within a speech, and eventually an abrupt switch to another topic. [1] Persons undergoing thought blocking may utter incomprehensible speech; they may also repeat words involuntarily or make up new words.

  8. Forgetting - Wikipedia

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    One of the first to study the mechanisms of forgetting was the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885). Using himself as the sole subject in his experiment, he memorized lists of three letter nonsense syllable words—two consonants and one vowel in the middle.

  9. Study: Americans Unfamiliar With Signs Of Early Alzheimer's - AOL

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    Like forgetting people's names, forgetting that you've said something already, forgetting a story, forgetting words. Mild cognitive impairment can seem pretty subtle, and a lot of people think it ...