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Anomia - Research News and Information
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Definition of 'Anomia'A language dysfunction characterized by the inability to name people and objects that are correctly perceived. The individual is able to describe the object in question, but cannot provide the name. This condition is associated with lesions of the dominant hemisphere involving the language areas, in particular the TEMPORAL LOBE. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p484) Common names: Anomia; Aphasia, Amnesic; Amnesic Aphasia; Nominal Dysphasia; Dysphasia, Nominal; Dysphasias, Nominal; Nominal Dysphasias; Aphasia, Nominal; Nominal Aphasia; Dysnomia; Dysnomias; Anomic Dysphasia; Anomic Dysphasias; Dysphasia, Anomic; Dysphasias, Anomic; Aphasia, Anomic; Anomic Aphasia |
Language performance in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a comparative review.
29 Jun 2008 
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) manifests as memory impairment in the absence of dementia and progresses to Alzheimer's disease (AD) at a rate of around 15% per annum, versus 1-2% in the general population. It thus constitutes a primary target for ... Read more...
Bridging the gap: can impairment-based therapy for anomia have an impact at the psycho-social level?
29 Jun 2008 BACKGROUND: Studies of therapy with people with aphasia tend to use impairment-based and functional measures of outcome. The views of participants are not formally evaluated. Current health and socialcare practice requires intervention to be ... Read more...
Using semantic feature analysis to improve contextual discourse in adults with aphasia.
29 Apr 2008 PURPOSE: Semantic feature analysis (SFA) was used to determine whether training contextually related words would improve the discourse of individuals with nonfluent aphasia in preselected contexts. METHOD: A modified ... Read more...
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- Language performance in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a comparative review. 29 Jun 2008
- Bridging the gap: can impairment-based therapy for anomia have an impact at the psycho-social level? 29 Jun 2008
- Using semantic feature analysis to improve contextual discourse in adults with aphasia. 29 Apr 2008
- Physical examination and diagnosis of dementia for video consultation.
29 Apr 2008 - Neuropsychological evidence for a spatial bias in visual short-term memory after left posterior ventral damage. 29 Apr 2008
- Anomia: a doubly typical signature of semantic dementia. 14 Apr 2008
- Current to the brain improves word-finding difficulties in aphasic patients. 30 Mar 2008
- Language impairment in euthymic, elderly patients with bipolar disorder but no dementia. 30 Mar 2008
- Numbers guy: are our brains wired for math? Mar 2008
- Computational modelling of phonological dyslexia: how does the DRC model fare? 28 Feb 2008
- The many places of frequency: evidence for a novel locus of the lexical frequency effect in word production. 28 Feb 2008
- A single-system account of semantic and lexical deficits in five semantic dementia patients. 28 Feb 2008
- Sparing of country names in the context of phonological impairment. 12 Feb 2008
- Remediation of developmental dyslexia: tackling a basic memory deficit. 30 Jan 2008
- Treatment for anomia in semantic dementia. 30 Jan 2008
- Phoneme-based rehabilitation of anomia in aphasia. 28 Jan 2008
- Naming is associated with left temporal pole metabolite levels in neurodegenerative diseases. 21 Jan 2008
- Functional outcome after language mapping for glioma resection.
2008 - Homographic and heterographic homophones in speech production: does orthography matter? 21 Dec 2007
- Naming of objects, faces and buildings in mild cognitive impairment. 21 Dec 2007
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Technical information about 'Anomia'
Definition: A language dysfunction characterized by the inability to name people and objects that are correctly perceived. The individual is able to describe the object in question, but cannot provide the name. This condition is associated with lesions of the dominant hemisphere involving the language areas, in particular the TEMPORAL LOBE. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p484)
Descriptor UI: D000849
Alternative terms: Anomia; Aphasia, Amnesic; Amnesic Aphasia; Nominal Dysphasia; Dysphasia, Nominal; Dysphasias, Nominal; Nominal Dysphasias; Aphasia, Nominal; Nominal Aphasia; Dysnomia; Dysnomias; Anomic Dysphasia; Anomic Dysphasias; Dysphasia, Anomic; Dysphasias, Anomic; Aphasia, Anomic; Anomic Aphasia; Color Anomia; Anomia, Color; Anomias, Color; Color Anomias;
Allowable Qualifiers: rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging;
Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500.090; C23.888.592.604.150.500.090;
History Note: 1991(1980); use APHASIA 1975-1979
Technical Notes: inability to name objects: do not confuse with ANOMIE ("state of social disorganization & demoralization in society...", often called "anomia")