Not exact matches
Testing can also help doctors identify the
semantic variant of
aphasia, which causes difficulties comprehending word meanings.
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.
Bilingual adults with
aphasia (BAA) who have
semantic deficits secondary to stroke can experience impairments that leave them unable to communicate in either language.
Some of these problems include Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia, Epileptic
Aphasia Syndrome, and
Semantic - Pragmatic Disorder.