Anomic Aphasia

Anomic Aphasia

Overview:

A mild, fluent aphasia characterized primarily by persistent word-finding difficulties (anomia) with otherwise fluent and grammatically correct speech. Patients have intact comprehension and repeat sentences well; however, they often resort to circumlocution (talking around missing words) to compensate for naming failures. Anomic aphasia can result from diverse lesion locations (disrupting naming networks) rather than a single focal damage site.


Source:

Prater, Stephanie, Rakesh Anand, and S. Prasad. "Crossed Aphasia in a Patient with Anaplastic Astrocytoma of the Non-Dominant Hemisphere." Journal of Radiology Case Reports 11, no. 9 (2017).

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