Abstract
Aphasia is impairment of language caused by brain damage. The term may be restricted to acquired disorders of language caused by focal brain lesions such as stroke, or more broadly applied to developmental language disorders or impairments due to diffuse brain damage such as head trauma or dementia.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science |
| Subtitle of host publication | Nadel/Cognitive |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780470018866 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470016190 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2006 |
Keywords
- agraphia
- alexia
- anomia
- aphasia
- language
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
- General Neuroscience
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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