Aphasia - Etiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

A 76-year-old man with cognitive and neurological symptoms.

29 Sep 2009 A 76-year-old man presented with cognitive symptoms, followed by headache and weakness of the lower limbs and left arm. The clinical course was progressive but fluctuating. On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a contrast-enhancing lesion 1 cm in ... Read more...

Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke.

29 Sep 2009 Poole JL, Sadek J, Haaland KY. Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke. OBJECTIVE: To examine 1-handed shoe tying performance and whether cognitive deficits more associated with left or right hemisphere ... Read more...

Neurotoxic and cardiotoxic effects of cocaine and ethanol.

30 Aug 2009 INTRODUCTION: Concurrent abuse of alcohol and cocaine results in the formation of cocaethylene, a powerful cocaine metabolite. Cocaethylene potentiates the direct cardiotoxic and indirect neurotoxic effects of cocaine or alcohol alone. CASE REPORT: ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Aphasia - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A 76-year-old man with cognitive and neurological symptoms. 29 Sep 2009
• Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke. 29 Sep 2009
• Neurotoxic and cardiotoxic effects of cocaine and ethanol. 30 Aug 2009
• Would you save this patient's eye or his brain? 30 Aug 2009
• Arcuate fasciculus tractography integrated into Gamma Knife surgery. 30 Aug 2009
• Issues and principles in service delivery to communicatively impaired minority bilingual adults in neurorehabilitation. 24 Aug 2009
• [Cerebral infarctions and leptomeningeal carcinomatosis] 30 Jul 2009
• Time course of evoked-potential changes in different forms of anomia in aphasia. 30 Jul 2009
• Functional outcome after language mapping for insular World Health Organization Grade II gliomas in the dominant hemisphere: experience with 24 patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Comment on "Aphasic or amnesic status epilepticus detected on PET but not EEG". 30 Jul 2009
• [Headaches and aphasia in an immunocompromised patient] 6 Jul 2009
• Agrammatic comprehension caused by a glioma in the left frontal cortex. 30 Jun 2009
• Acute massive cerebral infarctions treated with hemodialysis. 29 Jun 2009
• The production of linguistic prosody in subjects with aphasia. 29 Jun 2009
• Joint independent component analysis of structural and functional images reveals complex patterns of functional reorganisation in stroke aphasia. 9 Jun 2009
• Association between ApoE epsilon4 and cognitive impairment after stroke. 2 Jun 2009
• Fatal outcome of epileptic seizure-induced takotsubo syndrome with left ventricular rupture. 30 May 2009
• Significance of aphasia after first-ever acute stroke: impact on early and late outcomes. 28 May 2009
• Communication outcome after stroke: a new measure of the carer's perspective. 27 May 2009
• Assessment of arcuate fasciculus with diffusion-tensor tractography may predict the prognosis of aphasia in patients with left middle cerebral artery infarcts. 10 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Aphasia'

Definition: A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.

Descriptor UI: D001037

Alternative terms: Aphasia; Logasthenia; Logasthenias; Logagnosia; Logagnosias; Logamnesia; Logamnesias; Alogia; Alogias; Anepia; Anepias; Aphasia, Acquired; Acquired Aphasia; Aphasia, Ageusic; Ageusic Aphasia; Ageusic Aphasias; Aphasias, Ageusic; Aphasia, Auditory Discriminatory; Aphasias, Auditory Discriminatory; Auditory Discriminatory Aphasia; Auditory Discriminatory Aphasias; Discriminatory Aphasia, Auditory; Discriminatory Aphasias, Auditory; Aphasia, Commisural; Aphasias, Commisural; Commisural Aphasia; Commisural Aphasias; Aphasia, Functional; Aphasias, Functional; Functional Aphasia; Functional Aphasias; Aphasia, Global; Aphasias, Global; Global Aphasia; Global Aphasias; Dysphasia, Global; Dysphasias, Global; Global Dysphasia; Global Dysphasias; Aphasia, Syntactical; Aphasias, Syntactical; Syntactical Aphasia; Syntactical Aphasias; Aphasia, Intellectual; Aphasias, Intellectual; Intellectual Aphasia; Intellectual Aphasias; Aphasia, Mixed; Aphasias, Mixed; Mixed Aphasia; Mixed Aphasias; Aphasia, Post-Ictal; Aphasia, Post Ictal; Aphasias, Post-Ictal; Post-Ictal Aphasia; Post-Ictal Aphasias; Aphasia, Post-Traumatic; Aphasia, Post Traumatic; Aphasias, Post-Traumatic; Post-Traumatic Aphasia; Post-Traumatic Aphasias; Aphasia, Semantic; Aphasias, Semantic; Semantic Aphasia; Semantic Aphasias; Dejerine-Lichtheim Phenomenon; Dejerine Lichtheim Phenomenon; Phenomenon, Dejerine-Lichtheim; Lichtheim's Sign; Lichtheim Sign; Lichtheims Sign; Sign, Lichtheim's; Dysphasia; Aphasia, Progressive; Aphasias, Progressive; Progressive Aphasia; Progressive Aphasias; Aphasia, Graphomotor; Aphasias, Graphomotor; Graphomotor Aphasia; Graphomotor Aphasias;

Related Mesh Headings: Landau-Kleffner Syndrome;

Allowable Qualifiers: 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; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500.800.100; C23.888.592.604.150.500.800.100;

History Note: 1963

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics