global aphasia

With global aphasia, the person has difficulty speaking and understanding words.

Victims of global aphasia can no longer understand the meaning of words.

Individuals with Global aphasia have severe communication difficulties and will be extremely limited in their ability to speak or comprehend language.

Global aphasia could be thought of as the most extreme form of aphasia.

Persons with global aphasia are often mute or reduced to a few stereotyped words or sounds.

Global aphasia, results from damage to extensive portions of the perisylvian region of the brain.

Global aphasia, she discovered, was a condition in which people were capable of fully rational thought, but could not articulate anything but nonsense.

Global aphasia has been cited as among the most common type of aphasia in patients referred for speech rehabilitation therapy.

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Individuals with Mixed transcortical aphasia have similar deficits as in global aphasia, but repetition ability remains intact.

Likewise, patients diagnosed with global aphasia may be re-diagnosed with expressive aphasia upon improvement.

An individual with global aphasia will have difficulty understanding both spoken and written language and will also have difficulty speaking.

The presentation of global aphasia are those of severe expressive aphasia and receptive aphasia combined.

Speech impairments/aphasia: Broca's, Wernicke's or Global aphasia as a result of a dominant hemisphere lesion (usually the left brain)

Persons with a large injury to the left perisylvian areas of the brain, often initially show signs of global aphasia in the first 1-2 days due to brain swelling (cerebral edema).

Aphasia types include expressive aphasia, receptive aphasia, conduction aphasia, anomic aphasia, global aphasia, primary progressive aphasias and many others (see Category:Aphasias).

Patients with classic symptoms of expressive aphasia in general have more acute brain lesions, whereas patients with larger, widespread lesions exhibit a variety of symptoms that may be classified as global aphasia or left unclassified.

Whilst extensive lesions in the left hemisphere perisylvian area can render persons unable to produce or perceive language (global aphasia), there is no known acquired case where language is completely intact in the face of severe non-linguistic deterioration.

Global aphasia is a type of aphasia that is commonly associated with a large lesion in the perisylvian area of the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes of the brain causing an almost total reduction of all aspects of spoken and written language.

Concerns have been raised over the generalizability of the results obtained from research, as selection criteria for CIMT research has excluded patients with a moderate or more severe stroke, due to balance problems, serious cognitive deficits, and global aphasia, which may reduce understanding of safety instructions and interfere with a patient's ability to communicate difficulties.