(1) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(2) Patients with severe aphasia or cognitive impairment who could not communicate well enough for the administration of depression rating scales were excluded.
(3) Among these associated neurological features, only aphasia and apraxia were present in mildly demented cases with sufficient frequency to suggest utility as diagnostic signs early in the course of the disease.
(4) Moreover, on the basis of the results of accumulated lesions on 127 cases with various types of aphasia, the highly involved sites were determined as Broca's area, Wernicke's area and conduction area, and the sizes of the lesions in each area were also determined.
(5) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
(6) Hemiplegia and aphasia, when present, usually regressed within a few months.
(7) For fluency (from the Western Aphasia Battery), subcortical structural damage had direct and indirect (through frontal lobe) effects on the behavior.
(8) In eleven cases the aphasia was due to cerebrovascular disease and in the remaining four cases to traumatic injury to the brain.
(9) Of the four primarily cortical deficits assessed, three (visual field abnormalities, neglect, and aphasia) showed a highly significant graded relationship to the cardiac risk groups.
(10) In reviewing the literature, it was found that these patients were similar to those reported with progressive aphasia.
(11) During the technical and clinical work with the PicBox program we have had the reason and possibility to reflect on the relation between aphasia, language and thinking.
(12) The meaning of the emotional reaction shown by left brain-damaged patients seems easy to understand, if we consider that these subjects are affected by aphasia and by a paresis of the right hand.
(13) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(14) We have made a detailed neurolinguistic study of a patient with motor aphasia.
(15) The extent and severity of his global aphasia were unchanged.
(16) The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare form of acquired childhood aphasia associated with convulsive disorder.
(17) Attention is drawn to the existence of this rare form of aphasia and to the lack of appropriate educational facilities for aphasic children in general.
(18) The patient had an episode of aphasia 15 years ago, but recovered within 6 months.
(19) Clinical manifestations may include transient aphasia and weakness of the limbs with pyramidal signs.
(20) We report here the result of neuropsychological evaluation in a case of associative visual agnosia evolving to optic aphasia.
Aphemia
Definition:
(n.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The history of aphasia is usually taken to begin with Broca's (1861a,b) discovery of the correlation of aphemia with damage to the posterior inferior portion of the frontal lobes and the subsequent relation to left hemisphere.
(2) The speech of a patient with aphemia (pure anarthria) resulting from a penetrating brain wound was studied using linguistic and acoustic observations as well as electromyographic recordings from four labial muscles.
(3) There appear to be two syndromes that are almost exact duplicates in the adults and the children: (a) pure word deafness and verbal auditory agnosia, and (b) aphemia and verbal dyspraxia.
(4) A case is presented of a 13-year-old right-handed male who exhibited bilateral striato-capsular lesions following an episode of cerebral anoxia and a range of clinical features typical of aphemia.
(5) A 49-year-old right-handed man presented with a severe impairment of motor speech output aphemia.
(6) He was mute, communicating only through writing, but verbal comprehension was normal (aphemia).
(7) The clinical findings suggest a bilateral opercular syndrome due to a right hemisphere lesion and a crossed aphemia.
(8) Competing terms to designate disorders of speech and language were alalia (used by Jacques Lordat), aphemia (coined by Broca), and the ultimately triumphant aphasia (introduced by Armand Trousseau).
(9) As for the relationship between the left precentral gyrus and Broca's aphasia and its allied syndrome (ie, aphemia), we concluded that in Broca's aphasia the lower part of the precentral gyrus plays a more important role than previously assumed.
(10) Local cerebral metabolism was determined in a patient suffering aphemia following cerebral infarction using the 18FDG-PET technique.
(11) The mute or nearly mute patient who is alert and has good understanding of speech and a right hemiparesis could have Broca's aphasia, akinesia of speech (transcortical motor aphasia), or aphemia.