What is Aphasia
What is Aphasia.mp4
•Global Aphasia
•Broca’s Aphasia
•Wernicke’s Aphasia
Global Aphasia
Global Aphasia
• most severe form of aphasia and is applied to patients
who can produce few recognizable words and
understand little or no spoken language.
• Persons with Global Aphasia can neither read nor
write. Like in other milder forms of aphasia,
individuals can have fully preserved intellectual and
cognitive capabilities unrelated to language and
speech.
• Global Aphasia is caused by injuries to multiple
language-processing areas of the brain,
including those known as Wernicke’s and Broca’s
areas. These brain areas are
particularly important for understanding spoken
language, accessing vocabulary, using grammar,
and producing words and sentences.
• after the patient has suffered a stroke or a brain
trauma. Symptoms may rapidly improve in the
first few months after stroke if the damage has
not been too extensive. However, with greater
brain damage, severe and lasting disability may
result.
Global Aphasia
Broca’s Aphasia
• Broca’s aphasia is named after
the French scientist, Paul Broca,
who first related a set of deficits
associated with this type of
aphasia to localized brain
damage. He did this in 1861, after
caring for a patient who could only
say the word “tan”.
Broca’s (Expressive) Aphasia
• have trouble speaking fluently but their comprehension
can be relatively preserved.
• as non-fluent or expressive aphasia.
• Patients have difficulty producing grammatical
sentences and their speech is limited mainly to short
utterances of less than four words. Some persons have
more difficulty using verbs than using nouns.
• may understand speech relatively well, particularly
when the grammatical structure of the spoken
language is simple. However they may have harder
times understanding sentences with more complex
grammatical construct
“Mary gave John balloons”
“The balloons were given to John by Mary”
• may be able to read but be limited in writing.
• injury to speech and language brain areas such the left
hemisphere inferior frontal gyrus, among others.
• result of stroke but may also occur due to brain trauma.
• Like in other types of aphasia, intellectual and cognitive
capabilities not related to speech and language may be
fully preserved.
Broca’s Aphasia
Wernicke’s Aphasia
• Wernicke’s aphasia and
Wernicke’s area are
named after the German
neurologist Carl
Wernicke who first
related this specific type
of speech deficit to a
damage in a left posterior
temporal area of the
brain
Wernicke’s (Receptive) Aphasia
• ability to grasp the meaning of spoken words and
sentences is impaired, while the ease of producing
connected speech is not very affected.
• ‘fluent aphasia’ or ‘receptive aphasia’.
• Reading and writing are often severely impaired. As in
other forms of aphasia, individuals can have
completely preserved intellectual and cognitive
capabilities unrelated to speech and language.
•can produce many words and they often
speak using grammatically correct
sentences with normal rate and prosody.
However, often what they say doesn’t make
a lot of sense or they pepper their
sentences with non-existent or irrelevant
words.
• profound language comprehension deficits, even for
single words or simple sentences.
• damage in brain areas that are important for
processing the meaning of words and spoken
language. Such damage includes left posterior
temporal regions of the brain, which are part of what
is knows as Wernicke’s area, hence the name of the
aphasia.
Wernicke’s Aphasia
