Book chapter
Anomic Aphasia
The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, pp.1-3
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
01/30/2010
DOI: 10.1002/9780470479216.corpsy0062
Abstract
Anomic aphasia is a very disabling disorder that results from acquired brain dysfunction (typically stroke, traumatic brain injury, or temporal lobe resection). Patients with anomic aphasia manifest an isolated deficit in their ability to name things like concrete entities (named by nouns), actions (named by verbs), or spatial relationships (named by prepositions). Defective naming, also known as anomia, is a frequent part of the symptom complex that characterizes patients with aphasia (Goodglass & Wingfield, 1997; Tranel & Anderson, 1999), where aphasia refers to disturbances of the comprehension and formulation of verbal messages caused by acquired damage to language‐related brain structures (typically in the left hemisphere).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Anomic Aphasia
- Creators
- Rachel Casas - University of Iowa College of MedicineDaniel Tranel - University of Iowa College of Medicine
- Contributors
- Irving B Weiner (Editor) - University of South FloridaW. Edward Craighead (Editor) - Emory University
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, pp.1-3
- DOI
- 10.1002/9780470479216.corpsy0062
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hoboken, NJ, USA
- Number of pages
- 3
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/30/2010
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002411602771
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