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  1. Aphasia - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

    Jun 11, 2022 · Aphasia is a disorder that affects how you communicate. It can impact your speech, as well as the way you write and understand both spoken and written language. Aphasia usually happens suddenly after a stroke or a head injury.

  2. Aphasia - Wikipedia

    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]

  3. What is Aphasia? - The National Aphasia Association

    Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that impairs a person’s ability to process language, but does not affect intelligence. Aphasia impairs the ability to speak and understand others, and most people with aphasia experience difficulty reading and writing.

  4. Aphasia - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

    Aphasia is an acquired neurogenic language disorder resulting from an injury to the brain, typically the left hemisphere, that affects the functioning of core elements of the language network. Aphasia involves varying degrees of impairment in four primary areas: spoken language expression; written expression; spoken language comprehension

  5. Aphasia: What to Know - WebMD

    Apr 23, 2024 · Aphasia is a communication disorder that makes it hard to use words. It can affect your speech, writing, and ability to understand language. Aphasia results from damage or injury to parts of...

  6. Aphasia - Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage in a specific area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension. Aphasia leaves a person unable to communicate effectively with others.

  7. Aphasia Fact sheet - The National Aphasia Association

    Cause of aphasia. Aphasia is usually due to stroke or traumatic injury to the brain. Aphasia and stroke can appear suddenly, but warning signs can occur: Sudden weakness or numbness on one side of the body; Sudden trouble seeing; Sudden dizziness or trouble walking; Sudden headache for no reason; Sudden confusion or trouble talking and ...

  8. What you need to know about aphasia - Harvard Health

    Jul 1, 2022 · What is aphasia? Aphasia results from brain damage. This might be from a stroke (disruption of blood to the brain), tumor, head injury, brain infection, or progressive neurological disease (such as Alzheimer's). The part of the brain that is damaged determines the type of aphasia that develops.

  9. What is Aphasia? Symptoms, Types and Treatment

    May 9, 2024 · Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that results in loss of the ability to produce or understand language. Aphasia is not a loss of intelligence. Aphasia occurs when the language centers of the brain are damaged.

  10. Aphasia - NIDCD

    Aphasia is a disorder that results from damage (usually from a stroke or traumatic brain injury) to areas of the brain that are responsible for language. For most people, areas in the left side of the brain are affected. Aphasia impairs the expression and understanding of language, as well as reading and writing. Who develops aphasia?

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