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[edit] Aphasia and Tourette's

Is there any relation between aphasia and Tourette syndrome? EmRick 15:36, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Although both inevitably involve the language processing system to some degree, I'm not aware of any research that links the two disorders.

[edit] Aphasia and alcoholism?

Could George Bush's aphasia be caused by brain damage due to alcoholism? If one repeatedly drinks to the point of blackout, like Bush did in the past, what degree of brain damage might result?

George W Bush does not have aphasia and, in truth, his speaking skill isn't any worse than the average person. I am sure that if your every public word was recorded, then your enemies would find something to laugh at.

I strongly disagree, as do most of the rest of humanity. Mr. Bush's is a classic case of aphasia and he has acutally reached "case study status" in numerous universities and medical reserch facilities that engage in extensive research practices in this area.

well, could we get a reference for such a case study then? It would be a nice addition to both this article and Bushism. I agree, of course, that Bush's speaking performance is way below average. He is either affected by aphasia, or he has just an incredibly low intelligence. I seem to remember that he was a fluent speaker in earlier decades (when a gouvernor), so it seems more likely that he suffered a minor stroke at some point. I don't know which is more disconcerting, though, to have an idiot, or a brain-damage victim in charge of the world's deadliest arsenal. 83.77.216.101 20:41, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Bush wouldn't be considered to have aphasia in a clinical context. Although he does clearly have difficulties with formulating language, he is often able to articulate his meaning, just sometimes in a roundabout way! In the general population there is likely to be a spectrum of language ability, Bush is just near the 'lower ability' end

I believe that alcohol can cause temporary (and perhaps eventuntually permanent) aphasia. When I was in college, once, after a Saturday night of drinking too much, I tried to read the Sunday funnies. I could read all the words, but could make no sense of the sentences. But, my memory of this long ago event is imperfect: perhaps I was unable to put the letters together to form words. My speech and understanding of speech was unaffected.

[edit] EB1911 additions

On Oct 6th user Pwqn added the contents of the article from Encyclopedia Britannica 1911. It is almost 100 years old, on a medical topic very outdated. Pwqn has been adding EB1911 articles alphabetically with no checking for accuraracy. I apologize for reverting other Wikipedians edits since then, please add them back as needed, theres no other way of backing out the EB1911 text. If you'd like to keep the 1911 text, it needs a lot of work to verify its accuracy, as well as providing sources and references beyond the 1800s. Thanks. Stbalbach 03:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aphemia merge

The Aphemia article has a merge tag on it to suggest merging with this one. The content of Aphemia suggests that would be appropriate (but the lack of content of Aphemia means the merge would only consist of including the alternative name). Can someone who knows the subject confirm if the two are the same? Kcordina 12:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit

I have added some information about the classification of aphasia, but was not logged on when I did it! So the edit by 82.2.230.131 was me!


Importantly, who was it that added the information claiming that Broca's aphasia affects the RIGHT hemisphere and thus reduces the capability of the RIGHT arm. This is just clearly wrong and demonstrates that this article is not worthy of its B class rating. Broca's territory is located in the LEFT hemisphere and that's exactly why it affects the RIGHT arm. sju —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.232.244.84 (talk) 11:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism

I removed a large part of this article, because of text plagiarised from the NIDCD website. Stiles 03:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Combine Aphasia and Dysphasia?

In modern usage aphasia and dysphasia are equal, in my experience. Aphasia is the preferred term, to avoid confusion with dysphagia. --kylet 18:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I would agree, although the original terms have different meanings, in modern use they are the same. --JonRouston

[edit] Aphonia as a psychological disorder

I was redirected from aphonia to aphasia, which is not what I was searching for. Aphasia only implies that the ability to speak is lost through brain damage. However, there are also psychological reasons as to why a person would lose speech, such as a consequnece of anxiety or post-trauma, which is what I'm particularly trying to find. Am I looking in the wrong place? Grendel 18:38, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

It sounds that you were looking for Dysphonia. Dysphonia is a more appropriate redirect for aphonia so I have changed it. --JonRouston 13:51, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Curable =/= Treatable

I edited the article to say that aphasia has no definite cure but that it has treatments. This edit was reverted on the grounds that if it has treatments it's curable. But cancer has treatments but no cure. Shouldn't what I added stay? I included my reference as well. -Eratticus 02:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

No, here's what you said:

Some treatments are available for aphasia and it may go away with time but it is for the most part incurable.

Perhaps reword it to sound more like what you just said instead of what you wrote in the article. The other thing is to avoid WP:WEASEL words such as for the most part, some, instead tell what treatments, how often it goes away, how long it takes, etc. -THB 02:28, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apraxia of Speech

I change "Apraxia" to "Apraxia of Speech" to avoid confusion with other types of apraxia, such as limb apraxia or constructional apraxia.

[edit] Paraphasia

I created the article Paraphasia and I believe it is possible to add in a section about it in this article as paraphasia is a apasiatic characteristic... At least add it as a see also. What do some people think? Would add it in myself, but probably someone with more knowledge in the subject find a place to add it in. Cheers. petze 16:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Short bursts of fluid

I removed the following sentence: "People with aphasia may also be prone to short bursts of fluid."
There are two problems with this sentence:

  1. It is not clear what it means. Bursts of fluid?? What kind of fluid? Where? In the brain? In the mouth??
  2. It is not referenced. I googled aphasia and "bursts of fluid" but got no hit. So where does this information come from?

Would you please clarify? Lova Falk 17:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Emerson?

Emerson is listed as one of the famous people who had aphasia, but in Emerson's article i didn't see it mentioned. Also, this isn't cited. Can anyone find a source for this and if so, put it in Emerson's article? 24.33.239.54 17:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Luria's classification

Would it be appropriate to include Alexander Luria's system of classification to the article? It is the system used in most of Europe in clinical situations, at least that is what I was told. biggoergen (UTC)

[edit] Lie Detection

I found an artical that said people with aphasia are better at picking up lies: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A664021

I thought it was interesting. If it goes in is up to you guys. --66.65.244.151 (talk) 02:29, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Frenchay Aphasia Screening Test

I am proposing that Frenchay Aphasia Screening Test should be merged into this article under Diagnosis. I don't believe the test is sufficiently notable to merit a separate article (only one secondary source is cited). Thoughts please? - Neparis (talk) 19:19, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Seems pretty uncontroversial to me. Since nobody has objected in the past three months, I'd say go ahead with the merge. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 06:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] language vs speech

we should address whether aphasia is language in all forms or just speech. Llama (talk) 13:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Good point. As I understood from a lecture, aphasia both affects speech and other language, such as writing or gestures. However, I have no source for this information. Lova Falk (talk) 11:01, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge dysphasia and aphasia

Even though I myself feel these terms to be distinct because the prefix "a" means absence of and the prefix "dys" means disorder of, it would seem that in common and medical usage the terms are held to be synonymous in the same way as dysrhythmia and arhythmia. Since the dysphasia article is still a stub, I feel it should be merged into aphasia as it's the more developed article. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 23:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ketamin and aphasia

So... I'm not particularly proud of this, but from past personal experience the use of ketamin can cause temporary aphasia. But one person's testimony is not enough right? ClamsonJ (talk) 21:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)