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Anomic aphasia

Index Anomic aphasia

Anomic aphasia (also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia) is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where an individual has word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). [1]

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Akinetopsia

Akinetopsia (Greek: a for "without", kine for "to move" and opsia for "seeing"), also known as cerebral akinetopsia or motion blindness, is a neuropsychological disorder in which a patient cannot perceive motion in their visual field, despite being able to see stationary objects without issue.

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Albert Pitres

Albert Pitres (26 August 1848 – 25 March 1928) was a French neurological physician.

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Alcohol-related dementia

Alcohol-related dementia (ARD) is a form of dementia caused by long-term, excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages, resulting in neurological damage and impaired cognitive function.

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Alexandru Ionescu (socialist militant)

Alexandru Ionescu (July 29, 1862 – July 9, 1929) was a Romanian typographer, early labour leader and socialist journalist.

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Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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Anomia

Anomia may refer to.

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Aphasia

Aphasia is an inability to comprehend and formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions.

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Aphasiology

Aphasiology is the study of language impairment usually resulting from brain damage, due to neurovascular accident—hemorrhage, stroke—or associated with a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, including different types of dementia.

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Associative visual agnosia

Associative visual agnosia is a form of visual agnosia.

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Autotopagnosia

Autotopagnosia from the Greek a and gnosis, meaning "without knowledge", topos meaning "place", and auto meaning "oneself", autotopagnosia virtually translates to the "lack of knowledge about one's own space," and is clinically described as such.

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Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination

The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination or BDAE is a neuropsychological battery used to evaluate adults suspected of having aphasia, and is currently in its third edition.

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Boston Naming Test

The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Edith Kaplan, Harold Goodglass and Sandra Weintraub, is a widely used neuropsychological assessment tool to measure confrontational word retrieval in individuals with aphasia or other language disturbance caused by stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or other dementing disorder.

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Brain damage

Brain damage or brain injury (BI) is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells.

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Broca's area

Broca's area or the Broca area or is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the hominid brain with functions linked to speech production.

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Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome

Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS), also called "Schmahmann's syndrome" is a condition that follows from lesions (damage) to the cerebellum of the brain.

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Communication disorder

A communication disorder is any disorder that affects an individual's ability to comprehend, detect, or apply language and speech to engage in discourse effectively with others.

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Conduction aphasia

Conduction aphasia, also called associative aphasia, is a relatively rare form of aphasia.

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Corpus callosum

The corpus callosum (Latin for "tough body"), also callosal commissure, is a wide commissure, a flat bundle of commissural fibers, about 10 cm long beneath the cerebral cortex in the brains of placental mammals.

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Delirium

Delirium, also known as acute confusional state, is an organically caused decline from a previously baseline level of mental function.

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Dementia

Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning.

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Disconnection syndrome

Disconnection syndrome is a general term for a number of neurological symptoms caused by damage to the white matter axons of communication pathways—via lesions to association fibers or commissural fibers—in the cerebrum, independent of any lesions to the cortex.

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Dysnomia

Dysnomia can refer to the following.

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Electrical brain stimulation

Electrical brain stimulation (EBS), also referred to as focal brain stimulation (FBS), is a form of electrotherapy and technique used in research and clinical neurobiology to stimulate a neuron or neural network in the brain through the direct or indirect excitation of its cell membrane by using an electric current.

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Harold Goodglass

Harold Goodglass (August 18, 1920 – March 18, 2002) was a prominent pioneer of neuropsychological tests and assessment, and spent much of his career investigating aphasia.

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Head injury

A head injury is any injury that results in trauma to the skull or brain.

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Hypogonadism

Hypogonadism means diminished functional activity of the gonads—the testes or the ovaries —that may result in diminished sex hormone biosynthesis.

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Index of anatomy articles

Articles related to anatomy include.

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Index of psychology articles

Psychology (from ψυχή psykhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of") is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of human mental functions and behavior.

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Index of sociology articles

This is an index of sociology articles.

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List of circulatory system conditions

There are many conditions of or affecting the human circulatory system — the biological system that includes the pumping and channeling of blood to and from the body and lungs with heart, blood and blood vessels.

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List of diseases (A)

This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "A".

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List of language disorders

No description.

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List of medical symptoms

Medical symptoms are complaints which indicate disease.

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List of MeSH codes (C10)

The following is a list of the "C" codes for MeSH.

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List of MeSH codes (C23)

The following is a list of the "C" codes for MeSH.

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Love Hurts (House)

"Love Hurts" is the twentieth episode of the first season of House, which premiered on the Fox network on May 10, 2005.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

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Mental lexicon

The mental lexicon is defined as a mental dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on.

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Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity is an approach to learning and disability that argues diverse neurological conditions are the result of normal variations in the human genome.

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Nominal

Nominal may refer to.

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Paraphasia

Paraphasia is a type of language output error commonly associated with aphasia, and characterized by the production of unintended syllables, words, or phrases during the effort to speak.

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Posterior cerebral artery syndrome

Posterior cerebral artery syndrome is a condition whereby the blood supply from the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) is restricted, leading to a reduction of the function of the portions of the brain supplied by that vessel: the occipital lobe, the inferomedial temporal lobe, a large portion of the thalamus, and the upper brainstem and midbrain.

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Primary progressive aphasia

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a type of neurological syndrome in which language capabilities slowly and progressively become impaired.

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Progressive nonfluent aphasia

Progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA) is one of three clinical syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

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Semantic dementia

Semantic dementia (SD), also known as semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of semantic memory in both the verbal and non-verbal domains.

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Signorelli parapraxis

The Signorelli parapraxis represents the first and best known example of a parapraxis and its analysis in Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

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Speech

Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon.

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Speech production

Speech production is the process by which thoughts are translated into speech.

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Speech-language pathology

Speech-language pathology is a field of expertise practiced by a clinician known as a speech-language pathologist (SLP), also sometimes referred to as a speech and language therapist or a speech therapist. SLP is considered a "related health profession" along with audiology, optometry, occupational therapy, clinical psychology, physical therapy, and others.

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Temporal lobe

The temporal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals.

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Tip of the tongue

Tip of the tongue (or TOT) is the phenomenon of failing to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.

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Transcortical sensory aphasia

Transcortical sensory aphasia (TSA) is a kind of aphasia that involves damage to specific areas of the temporal lobe of the brain, resulting in symptoms such as poor auditory comprehension, relatively intact repetition, and fluent speech with semantic paraphasias present.

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Visual agnosia

Visual agnosia is an impairment in recognition of visually presented objects.

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WordNet

WordNet is a lexical database for the English language.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomic_aphasia

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