Although he had never before chanced to come across a case of aphasia (happily a rare disease), Hewitt was acquainted with its general nature.
Meantime the doctor reported that my suspicion as to aphasia was right.
Aphasia (in Greek "absence of speech") is a total or partial loss of the power of speech, either in its spoken or written form.
Well," I replied, "of course there's a lot of talk now in the papers about aphasiaand amnesia and all that stuff.
This dislocation of memory is a variety of aphasia known as amnesia, and when the memory is recurrently lost and restored, we have alternating personality.
To illustrate: A patient afflicted with aphasiais brought to a physician.
As the alternatives arise, the means for discriminating them arise also; determinate symptoms are observed, and in due time the physician arrives at the final conclusion: "This is sensory cortical aphasia of the visual type.
If there are degrees in speechlessness, Kirk's aphasia became doubled and trebled at the sight of her.
This may affect speech to the point of an apparent aphasia or produce paragraphia.
Bristowe cites the history of a sailor of thirty-six, a patient of St. Thomas Hospital, London, who suffered from aphasia for nine months.
Aphasia may be the result of sudden strong emotions, in such cases being usually temporary; it may be traumatic; it may be the result of either primary or secondary malnutrition or degeneration.
Aphasia is a disease of the faculty of language, that is, a disturbance of the processes by which we see, hear, and at the same time appreciate the meaning of symbols.
The varieties of aphasia are:-- (1) Amnesia of speech.
This dislocation of memory is a variety of aphasia known as amnesia, and when the memory is recurrently lost and restored it is an "alternating personality.
Is it aphasia or amnesia, or whatever the doctors call it, and do you think she is wandering about somewhere unable to recover her real personality?
Further information as to brain weight and cranial capacity, will be found in the author's treatise on "Aphasia and the Localisation of Articulate Language," chapter xii.
The subject of Aphasia is treated in all its relations, and in all its forms and modifications.
In the latter, the Jurisprudence ofAphasia is dealt with.
I knew a man once who had amnesia andaphasia both, and it was six months before he got over it.
The tactile and muscular sensations are also disturbed, and motor and sensory aphasia may be present.
Different forms of aphasia and interference with vision or with hearing follow implication of the centres governing these functions.
Motor aphasia may result from pressure on the left inferior frontal convolution; auditory aphasia from abscess in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution.
Marie has proved that aphasia results from lesions in this area.
When the abscess is on the left side, apraxia and motor aphasia may be present.
In our age, when mental and nervous diseases are so rapidly increasing, aphasia victims are becoming more common.
We know that, in some cases, hypnotism has benefited the aphasia and amnesia victim.
Then you do not suffer at all from aphasia just now?
There had been a wound in the left parietal region, and the aphasia was presumably consequent upon a direct affection of the left hemisphere.
Speech was somewhat difficult, but he was free from any definite aphasia or paraphasia.
When he came to himself, he was paralyzed and was unable to say more than a few words, but at the end of a month his aphasia ceased and he began to walk.
This aphasiais more apt to occur when the wound is deep.
According to Babinski, no true case of hysterical aphasia has been published since the beginning of the war; all the cases have been cases of mutism.
The patient was physically well and seemed perfectly intelligent despite his aphasia and amnesia.
That particular case did not come to autopsy, but Lhermitte’s explanation of its queer association of aphasia with ipsilateral hemiplegia seems sound enough.
He had had a poliomyelitis at five, affecting the left leg, and he had had a right hemiplegia with aphasia following pneumonia, at 20.
There is no aphasia with the crural monoplegia due to superior paracentral disorder.
Now aphasia ought to be the result of a lesion on the left side of the brain in the common run of cases, whereas left-sided hemiplegia ought to be the result of lesion on the right side of the brain.
Case 103 was the curious case (see above) of aphasia with hemiplegia--not upon the right side, but upon the left side.
Cases with retrocentral lesions have an aphasia suggestive of Wernicke’s aphasia, and ordinarily leave behind them extensive defects in intelligence and language.
For an account of aphasia and other morbid psychological manifestations the reader is referred to the articles on Aphasia, Insanity, Hysteria, etc.
Hemiplegia, or perhaps aphasia or other evidence of localized disturbance, follows central embolism; angina pectoris, with a disturbed cardiac action, results from embolism of the coronary artery.
Aphasia also has been recorded by Hirsch and by Hayden.
We know what we want to say, and how we wish to appear, but, just as a patient in aphasia uses the wrong word, we use the wrong manifestation.
We suffer, we ghosts,' he said in effect, 'from a malady akin to aphasia in the living.
In our days we encounter symptoms similar to those described above, testifying to a sort of collective aphasia in reverse.
What we probably refused to see is how deep the literacy of graffiti goes, where its roots are, how wide the extensions, and how much aphasia in its writing and reading.
On the digital networks of today's furious exchange of information, collective aphasia is symptomatic of many changes in the cognitive condition of the people involved in its practical experiences.
Research undertaken in the last 15 years shows that at a certain stage, aphasia brings on a regression from alphabet to image reading as design, as pictographic, iconic reading.
He says, in part: "The two traditional types of aphasia are motor and sensory.
Sensory aphasia is the inability to interpret the meaning of a sensation .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aphasia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aphasia; dumbness; muteness
