Broca's Aphasia

This is a video of a patient with Broca's aphasia from the Wisconsin Physio Dept website.

http://www.physiology.wisc.edu/yin/public/

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• broca
• aphasia
• patient
• neuroscience

[Fuckulo2]

that doctor is the grooviest doctor on earth.

[aquarianbabe]

My grandfather would cry when he was trying to communicate with us. He loved to talk.  It was so sad to watch. Then he just stopped speaking altogether.

[craigpsimpson]

"Maybe you had a touch of rheumatis' " Even rheumatism sounds like a lullaby with this guy.

[juni0r30]

@tyronegaa aphasia patients are all different, depending on the brain damage. Aphasia means, you cant use language. But as you can see, most patients can still use some language to speak, so i think they still can write down things, but they'll have a very hard time, just like when they're speaking.

[tyronegaa]

can these patients write down what they mean?

[GovernmentHo0ker]

@BalmungSama0 It's a him

[BalmungSama0]

Watched the video: wow. She's actually doing REALLY well. You can understand her almost perfectly. She's either very lucky, very good at her treatment, or both.

[BalmungSama0]

@friggingbomb88 Sorry, but I doubt it. There's only so much the brain can recover from. But the younger she got it, the better her chances of recovery are. Maybe not fully recover, but improvement. I checked the videos, and it says she got it when she was 18, so her recovery is limited. Still, not to old. She'll probably recover a fair bit more if she keeps up the therapy.

[friggingbomb88]

Would you think that they are all curable? I checked the videos for Sarah Scott, who is a teen suffered Broca's Aphasia after a stroke, and she indeed had progress for recovering her ability to speak, but it seems to be a frigging long way for her :(

[BalmungSama0]

@friggingbomb88 That's rare, but I did hear of a Classics professor who had a stroke, and after recovery, he couldn't speak English any more, but could still speak Ancient Greek fluently. Of course, it would've been better for him if it was a modern language, but there does seem to be some cases where you can damage one language without affecting another.