aphasia

Examples of aphasia in the following topics:

• Human Language and the Brain

  • When these areas are damaged or injured, capabilities for speaking or understanding can be lost, a disorder known as aphasia.
  • Damage to Broca's area can result in productive aphasia (also known as Broca's aphasia), or an inability to speak.
  • Damage to this area results in receptive aphasia (also called Wernicke's aphasia).
  • This type of aphasia manifests itself as a loss of comprehension, so sometimes while the patient can apparently still speak, their language is nonsensical and incomprehensible.

• Cerebral Hemispheres and Lobes of the Brain

  • These disorders are known as Wernicke's and Broca's aphasia respectively; an aphasia is an inability to speak.