Translation for 'aphasia' from English to Swedish

aphasia

afasi {u}med.

• Broca's aphasia, or non-fluent aphasia, is a language disorder caused by damage to Broca's area and surrounding regions in the left frontal lobe.
• Neurodevelopmental forms of APD are differentiable from aphasia in that aphasia is by definition caused by acquired brain injury, but acquired epileptic aphasia has been viewed as a form of APD.
• A person with anomic aphasia have word-finding difficulties.
• Expressive aphasia is classified as non-fluent aphasia, as opposed to fluent aphasia.
• Patients who are affected by transcortical sensory aphasia, a rare form of aphasia, have been found to exhibit formulaic language that is characterised by "lengthy chunks of memorized material".

• Mesulam's original description in 1982 of progressive language problems caused by neurodegenerative disease (which he called primary progressive aphasia (PPA) included patients with progressive nonfluent (aphasia, semantic dementia, and logopenic progressive aphasia.
• Landau–Kleffner syndrome (LKS)—also called infantile acquired aphasia, acquired epileptic aphasia or aphasia with convulsive disorder—is a rare childhood neurological syndrome.
• Transcortical sensory aphasia (TSA) is a kind of aphasia that involves damage to specific areas of the temporal lobe of the brain, resulting in symptoms such as poor auditory comprehension, relatively intact repetition, and fluent speech with semantic paraphasias present.
• Wernicke aphasia is when there is damage to the side portion of the language-dominant part of the brain.
• The Aphasia Group provides an opportunity to practice speech and language skills, provides education about aphasia, and encourages socialization among the members.

• Bilingual aphasia is a specific form of aphasia which affects one or more languages of a bilingual (or multilingual) individual.
• As stated above, apraxia should not be confused with aphasia (the inability to understand language); however, they frequently occur together.