I clicked on a link in this article regarding " word loss " and that took me to the " anomic aphasia " page.
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For instance, patients with naming deficits ( anomic aphasia ) might show an inability only for naming buildings, or people, or colors.
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In addition, although Anomic Aphasia is seen to be less severe than other aphasias, therapy is still imperative to help decrease the patient s word finding deficits.
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I hope you have some resource their to find internal links to the " anomic aphasia " page on the topic of word loss that will locate the referring page.
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However, longitudinal research on children with anomic aphasia due to head injury shows that even several years after the injury, some signs of deficient word retrieval are still observed.
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Some studies have found that in right-handed people the language center is 99 % in the left hemisphere; therefore, anomic aphasia almost exclusively occurs with damage to the left hemisphere.
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However, in left-handed people the language center is about 60 % in the left hemisphere; thus, anomic aphasia can occur with damage to the right hemisphere in left-handed people.
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These schemes also identify several further aphasia subtypes, including : anomic aphasia, which is characterized by a selective difficulty finding the names for things; and global aphasia, where both expression and comprehension of speech are severely compromised.
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Although many experts have believed that damage to Broca's area or Wernicke's area are the main causes of anomia, current studies have shown that damage in the left parietal lobe is the epicenter of anomic aphasia.
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In the speech tests, the person is asked to repeat a sentence with common words; if the person cannot identify the word but he or she can describe it, then the person is highly likely to have anomic aphasia.
