aphasic

He had been totally aphasic as well, unable to make a sound.

This all means that aphasic patients might benefit from learning how to speech read (lip reading).

Nearly six years ago, he suffered a stroke that left him aphasic - able to speak only with difficulty and in limited fashion.

The relative frequency of left and right sided lesions among the total aphasic population is calculated.

For example, researchers can investigate and simulate the lexical access systems under various states of damage without using aphasic people.

The importance of word-initial phonology in prolonged naming efforts by aphasic patients.

One such study suggests that many aphasic patients retain their abilities to process syntactic structures on-line.

He begins having flashbacks of combat in Vietnam and suffers debilitating aphasic episodes at work.

Recovery of languages varies across aphasic patients.

One perplexing feature of this conclusion is that since the late nineteenth century far fewer children with right hemisphere lesions are aphasic.

"I'm surprised, I'll admit it; he's still aphasic, not responding to anything, but he seems aware; his vital signs are stable.

His research began when he noticed that a patient with an aphasic stroke had lesions in the left hemisphere of his brain.

The stroke had made Mr. Nixon severely aphasic, a condition in which speech and expression are impaired.

He arrived at this discovery by studying the brains of aphasic patients (persons with speech and language disorders resulting from brain injuries).

A number of studies purported to show that, unlike Broca's patients, children are often severely aphasic after right hemisphere lesions.

The paradigm has been used in the study of syntactic processing in the study of aphasic patients.

Receptive Aphasic patients mostly suffer from lexical-semantic difficulties, but also have difficulties in comprehension tasks.

Those who experience dementia are often aphasic, restless, and demonstrate irrational behavior, such as violence, and deep emotions at odd intervals.

Although we have illustrated this point with reference to Broca's aphasia, it is generally true for all the aphasic syndromes.

"He became aphasic and more and more lethargic, and by the time we got him into bed, he was unconscious."

Almost immediately Paula discovers that Nell's language is English, based partly on her mother's aphasic speech after a stroke.

Expressive aphasic patients suffer from more regular rule governed principles in forming sentences, which is closely related to Alzheimer patients.

Then after they completed the first part of the experiment, the experimenters taught the aphasic patients to speech read, which is the ability to read lips.

"He's not aphasic, is he?"

"She had migraine with aura, specifically migraine with aphasic aura," Lipton says.

Aphasic for the rest of his life, he remained a recluse.

How could two aphasics talk with each other?

Boudarel could not talk to me; he had become aphasic.

It is agreed upon, that aphasics suffer from perceptual deficits.

How to engage the right brain hemisphere in aphasics without even singing: Evidence for two paths of speech recovery.

Some linguistic structures in the speech of a Broca's aphasic.

Narrative strategies of aphasic and normal speaking subjects.

In subsequent studies it was shown that there are more sinistral aphasics with left than right hemisphere lesions.

In general, an individual Broca's aphasic is likely to show only some subset of the six symptoms listed above.

When we determine precisely the problems the aphasic is experiencing, we can tell pretty well where the lesions in the brain are located.

I am a little aphasic and entirely alexic.

Some of the more common ones are in the language acquisition of children, aphasics and multilinguals.

However, an intriguing line of research has demonstrated specific comprehension deficits in Broca's aphasics as well.

Conduction aphasics will show relatively well-preserved auditory comprehension, which may even be completely functional.

The opinion is supported by many studies showing that many aphasics also have trouble with visual-memory required tasks.

(1998) Semantic influences on thematic role assignment: evidence from normals and aphasics.

Receptive aphasics produce speech that seems fluent and grammatical, but is largely devoid of sensible content.

This occurs especially often among children and aphasics (individuals with damage to language-relevant areas of the brain), although normal speakers also neutralize frequently.

Linguistic work comes within its remit only if the subjects are National Health Service patients - for example, adult aphasics, or handicapped children.

(This may be why the speech of aphasics is often peppered with expletives and stereotyped phrases.)

Common among aphasics."

The extent to which Broca's aphasics retain knowledge of grammar is a matter of considerable controversy.

Imagination is dulled, "the world has become aphasic, opaque, and sullen; it is wearing mourning clothes."

(1983) Sensitivity to grammatical structure in so-called agrammatic aphasics.

Comprehension of discourse-linked and non-discourse-linked questions by children and Broca's aphasics.