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2. Transcortical motor aphasia - Wikipedia

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   Transcortical motor aphasia (TMoA), also known as commissural dysphasia or white matter dysphasia, results from damage in the anterior superior frontal lobe of the language-dominant hemisphere. This damage is typically due to cerebrovascular accident (CVA).

3. Aphasia - Wikipedia

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   Aphasia, also known as dysphasia, [a] is an impairment in a person’s ability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. [2] The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in developed countries. [3]

4. Expressive aphasia - Wikipedia

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   [3] [7] Expressive aphasia differs from dysarthria, which is typified by a patient's inability to properly move the muscles of the tongue and mouth to produce speech. Expressive aphasia also differs from apraxia of speech, which is a motor disorder characterized by an inability to create and sequence motor plans for conscious speech. [8]

5. Primary progressive aphasia - Wikipedia

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   [10] [11] [12] In the classical Mesulam criteria for primary progressive aphasia, there are two variants: a non-fluent type PNFA and a fluent type SD. [13] [14] A third variant of primary progressive aphasia, LPA was then added, [15] and is an atypical form of Alzheimer's disease. For PNFA, the core criteria for diagnosis include agrammatism ...

6. Wendy Williams’ aphasia diagnosis puts a spotlight on the ...

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   Learn more about aphasia, including its causes and symptoms, after Wendy Williams’ team announced her diagnosis with the neurological condition. Wendy Williams’ aphasia diagnosis puts a ...

7. Mixed transcortical aphasia - Wikipedia

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   Mixed transcortical aphasia is characterized by severe speaking and comprehension impairment, but with preserved repetition. [6] People who suffer mixed transcortical aphasia struggle greatly to produce propositional language or to understand what is being said to them, yet they can repeat long, complex utterances or finish a song once they hear the first part.

8. Progressive nonfluent aphasia - Wikipedia

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   Anomic aphasia (word retrieval failures) Phonemic paraphasia (sound errors in speech e.g. 'gat' for 'cat') Agrammatism (using the wrong tense or word order) As the disease develops, speech quantity decreases and many patients become mute. Cognitive domains other than language are rarely affected early on.

9. This is what it’s like to have aphasia and struggle to find ...

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