Amnestic aphasia

Introduction Anomicaphasia (AA), also known as amnesticaphasia, refers to aphasia with noonymia as the sole or major symptom. Spoken expressions are difficult to find words, lack of substantive words, often describe the function of the article instead of the words that cannot be said, and there are more slang and empty words. Speech understanding and retelling are normal or near normal.

Cause

Nomenclature aphasia can not be the main feature, the lesion can be in different parts of the dominant hemisphere, but if the acute phase of the onset is typical of the characteristic aphasia, the lesion is mostly in the posterior or superior iliac crest. Binding area.

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Brain CT examination

The patient's speech and writing ability exist, but the vocabulary is forgotten, and the object name is especially forgotten. It is more difficult to ask the patient to name the designated item. If the person prompts, the name of the item can be immediately stated, but it is quickly forgotten. The damaged part of the aphasia is the junction area of occipital lobe and temporal lobe, mainly in the Brod-mann37 area and the rear part of the 21st and 22nd areas.

Differential diagnosis

1. Sensory aphasia (Wernicke aphasia): The patient's listening comprehension disorder is prominent, manifested as a large number of words, clear pronunciation, correct pronunciation, correct phrase length, but lack of substantive words. The patients long answer was not asked, but it was said that it had nothing to do with the question of the examiner. The lesion is located in the Wernicke area of the dominant hemisphere (the back of the upper back).

2, sports aphasia: also known as express aphasia, colloquial aphasia, cortical motor aphasia. It is caused by the damage of the Broka's area, that is, the speech movement center of the third frontal back. The symptoms are characterized by the patient's understanding of other people's language, the movement of the organ of the organ is unobstructed, and some can pronounce but cannot constitute language.

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