Sentences with phrase «as aphasia»

These disabilities include such intriguing conditions as aphasia (loss of speech and language comprehension), agnosia (the inability to identify objects) and prosopagnosia (the inability to recognize faces).

It is now public knowledge that former Ghana Black Stars striker Junior Agogo has been battling a popular disease known as aphasia...

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«Aphasia is considered to be strictly a language deficit, but as a field we are starting to embrace the notion that language is not distinct from other functions, and that it is really integrated with many other functions,» Sandberg said.

The term includes such conditions as dysgraphia (writing disorder), dyslexia (reading disorder), dyscalculia (mathematics disorder) and developmental aphasia.

However, in brains at rest in people with aphasia, networks involved in hearing, motor processing, attention and executive functions were not as strongly connected as the same networks in the control group.

Aphasia, a language disorder commonly diagnosed in stroke patients, may not be solely a language issue as traditionally believed, according to a Penn State study.

Patients diagnosed with aphasia can have difficulty speaking and understanding spoken words as well as difficulty reading and writing.

Perhaps it is because it is so crucial to our survival that lexical and semantic knowledge related to food is relatively well preserved even in diseases that lead to a general decline in memory and cognition, such as Alzheimer's and Aphasia Primary Progressive.

We performed task - free («resting - state») functional imaging in 60 nonfamilial AD patients, including 20 early - onset AD (age at onset < 65 years, amnestic / dysexecutive deficits), 24 logopenic aphasia (language deficits), and 16 posterior cortical atrophy patients (visual deficits), as well as 60 healthy controls.

East Hanover, NJ — January 24, 2018 — Olga Boukrina, PhD, research scientist in Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation, has received a $ 10,000 grant from the Mabel H. Flory Charitable Trust to continue to study the role of reading deficits as a barrier to stroke rehabilitation, specifically the treatment of aphasia.

These are typically word - finding difficulties or aphasia, although tremors can be seen, as well as a number of other neurologic events.

Developed and implemented treatment plans for problems such as swallowing disorders, cognitive therapy and aphasia.

My wide knowledge in different speech disorders such as apraxia, aphasia, dysarthria, neurological impairments, phonology and laryngectomy will be very beneficial in proper treatment of patients -LSB-...] Continue Reading →

They include conditions which have been referred to as perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, developmental aphasia, etc... they do not include learning problems which are due primarily to visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, to mental retardation, emotional disturbance or to environmental deprivation.»