0 a medical condition that makes a person unable to speak, write, or understand speech or writing because of damage to the brain
A second empirical problem is presented by patients with severe aphasia, who can carry out numerous complex tasks.
Some data suggest that the type of script has an effect on the oral reading performance of patients with bilingual aphasia.
And the evidence from aphasia suggests that at least many aspects of cognition can continue to operate normally once language has been removed.
This description bears close resemblance to the speech of aphasia patients who have suffered severe left-hemispheric stroke.
Over the remainder of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cases of children with "infantile aphasia" or "congenital aphasia" were reported.
In aphasia (and dementia) there is evidence for a double dissociation1 between nouns and verbs that is linked to the constellation of the lesions.
At admission, 13% of the patients had impaired consciousness, 32% had aphasia, and 68% had motor deficits.
Information regarding the time course of language comprehension in aphasia is obviously crucial to our understanding of the underlying pathology.
