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July 15, 2002
A: FROM MENTOR TERESA ESSER, To read TERESA's bio. click
here.
Aphasia is a loss or impairment of the power
to use or comprehend words. The two most commonly
studied forms of aphasia are Broca's aphasia and
Wernicke's aphasia.
Persons with Broca's aphasia can understand what words
mean, but they have a hard time speaking.
Here is some information about Broca's aphasia:
http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/med532/Broca.htm
Persons with Wernicke's aphasia can speak
fluently, but they may use many nonsense words.
Here is some information about Wernicke's
aphasia:
http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/neurowebforum/StrokeArticles/Wernickesaphasia.html
Here is some general information about aphasia:
http://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/library/aphasia.html
You could read the book Biopsychology by John P.J. Pinel,
or Principles of Neural Science by Eric Kandel,
James Schwartz and Thomas Jessell. I recommend checking
these books out of the library.
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