Sentences with phrase «causes aphasia»
The condition causes aphasia — an impairment in the ability to understand words.
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Aphasia is a communication disorder caused by damage to parts of the brain that control language, according to the American Speech - Language - Hearing Association.
The most common cause of aphasia is stroke.
Testing can also help doctors identify the semantic variant of aphasia, which causes difficulties comprehending word meanings.
The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type of language dementia, primary progressive aphasia (PPA), provides important new insights into the beginning stages of this disease — which results in language loss — when it is caused by a buildup of a toxic protein found in Alzheimer's disease.
«Syndrome of Acquired Aphasia With Convulsive Disorder in Children» was published in 1957 — 50 years ago this month — and caused quite a stir, opening the door for some 160 diagnoses between 1957 and 1990.
While at NYU in 2004, Plaza suffered a stroke that caused temporary paralysis and expressive aphasia, but she has fully recovered.
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It has been known for hundreds of years that a left - hemisphere injury to the brain is more likely to cause language disturbance — aphasia — than a right hemisphere injury, especially but not exclusively in right - handed persons.