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In the Aphasia article page I want to contribute how aphasia relates to the area of psycholinguisitcs. Aphasia is a disorder not of language comprehension, but of production. I feel as though not enough people are aware of what aphasia is and how it affects people. The study of aphasia in psycholinguistics may help us understand what the disconnect between language production really is. I'd like to learn more about this subject in addition to adding to this page. The Glass Fox (talk) 17:17, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Lead Section for aphasia

The history of aphasia is an important factor to consider when researching what aphasia is. By knowing more about the history of a disease, the better of a chance you have at ruling out potential misnomers of the disease and possibly discovering new ways of thinking about ways to use therapy. Although the cause for most aphasias are known, the best way to help someone to recover, however, is not. Treatment and rehabilitation are the only ways currently to help those with aphasia, but by knowing the history, knowing what has been tried, and what has been tested can help us in the future to search for new ways to help treat aphasia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Glass Fox (talk • contribs) 02:44, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

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Aphasia was non medically described from texts such as the Bible, and the writings of Homer, hoever not much has been researched regarding non medical texts. Medically however, speechlessness was described as an incorrect prognosis and did not assume that there were underlying language complications (Eling &Whitaker). The first medical documents dating back into the late 19th century contain early descriptions of aphasia. Broca and his colleagues were some of the first to write about aphasia, but Wernicke was the first credited to have written extensively about aphasia being a disorder that contained comprehension difficulties (Boller). Despite claims of who reported on aphasia first, it was F. J. Gall that gave the first full description of aphasia after studying wounds to the brain, as well as his observation of speech difficulties resulting from vascular lesion (Riese).

Specifically, primary progressive aphasia, a more rare type of aphasia, does not have a very clear history. In the case of this type of aphasia, only a few documents containing patient records contain linguistic and neuropsychological data, but little to no data about an actual prognosis (Le Rhun, Richard, Pasquier). — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Glass Fox (talk • contribs) 03:10, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Adding to the Wernike's area section

-Wernicke’s Aphasia, considered a fluent aphasia, can be the result of trauma to the temporal region of the brain, specifically to Wernicke’s area (NIDCD). Trauma can be the result from an area of problems, however it is most commonly seen as a result of stroke. Patients who have been diagnosed with Wernicke’s aphasia have fluent speech, but it’s the meaning of their utterances that are the most notably affected, (ASHA) While their sentence structure remains, the words patients use often are nonsense,(ASHA).

-Comprehension is severely affected in patients with Wernicke’s aphasia. Wernicke’s area has been thought to be the center of language processing, specifically processing of meaning, (DeWitt). While patients are still left with some comprehension, they cannot repeat a sentence spoken to them or participate in an action requested from another speaker, (Ellis). A case study done by Ellis et al discus a patient who underwent several types of testing, one of which was a word-picture test. The conclusion of the test showed, that while the patient understood what the image was, he had trouble retrieving the word and understanding the instructions, (Ellis)

https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/aphasia http://www.asha.org/Practice-Portal/Clinical-Topics/Aphasia/Common-Classifications-of-Aphasia/ Wernlcke’s aphasia and normal languagp processing: A case study in cognitive neuropsychology* ANDREW W. ELLIS DIANE MILLER GILLIAN SIN University of Lancaster Wernicke’s Area Revisited: Parallel Streams and Word Processing Iain DeWitt1 and Josef P. Rauschecker2

Catroger (talk) 05:03, 24 April 2017 (UTC)