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Aphasia is a disorder that affects how you communicate. It can impact your speech, as well as the way you write and understand both spoken and written language. Aphasia usually happens suddenly after a stroke or a head injury.
Has the aphasia been continuous, or does it come and go? Have you noticed changes in your speech — such as the way you move your jaw, tongue and lips to make speech sounds — or the sound of your voice?
Primary progressive aphasia (uh-FAY-zhuh) is a rare nervous system syndrome that affects the ability to communicate. People who have it can have trouble expressing their thoughts and understanding or finding words. Symptoms begin gradually, often before age 65. They get worse over time.
Aphasia is a condition that can affect a person's ability to communicate. To better understand the condition, the Mayo Clinic News Network reached out to Dr. Hugo Botha, a neurologist at Mayo Clinic, to explain.
To diagnose primary progressive aphasia, a neurologist or speech and language pathologist will likely review your symptoms and order tests. Communication problems that get worse without significant changes in thinking and behavior for a year or two is a hallmark of primary progressive aphasia.
Areas of focus: Mild cognitive impairment, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal dementia, Posterior cortical atrophy, Primary ... progressive aphasia, Aphasia, Lewy body dementia, Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, Vascular dementia, Semantic dementia, Prion disorders, Memory loss, Primary progressive apraxia of speech. Show more areas of focus.
Dysarthria happens when the muscles used for speech are weak or are hard to control. Dysarthria often causes slurred or slow speech that can be difficult to understand. Common causes of dysarthria include conditions that affect the nervous system or that cause facial paralysis.
Bell's palsy is a condition that causes sudden weakness in the muscles on one side of the face. Often the weakness is short-term and improves over weeks. The weakness makes half of the face appear to droop. Smiles are one-sided, and the eye on the affected side is hard to close.
Children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) may have a variety of speech symptoms. Symptoms vary depending on a child's age and the severity of the speech problems. CAS can result in: Babbling less or making fewer vocal sounds than is typical between the ages of 7 to 12 months.
Overview. A subarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding in the space between the brain and the surrounding membrane (subarachnoid space). The primary symptom is a sudden, severe headache. Some people describe it as the worst headache they have ever felt. Along with having a headache, some people may experience: