Anomia
Anomia
A neurological condition that impairs one's ability to name persons and objects.
Alexic Anomia
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Anomia is caused by injury to the language areas of the brain. Examples of injury to the brain are:
Stroke (most common cause)
Traumatic head injury
Brain tumor
Brain infection
Dementia
Other brain conditions ...
Anomia
inability to recall or recognize names of objects
Aphasia ...
Anomia or Anomic aphasia: A problem with word finding. Impaired recall of words with no impairment of comprehension or the capacity to repeat the words.
Anomia may be the result of damage to the angular gyrus in the hemisphere dominant for speech and language. (It is not a very reliably localised syndrome - all patients with Aphasia experience some problems with word finding.) ...
Anomia
A form of aphasia (loss of language capability caused by brain damage) in which the subject has difficulty remembering or recognizing names which the subject should know well.
Alexic anomia happens when you lose your ability to understand written words. You can no longer read. This is a type of aphasia, which is a language disorder. It is caused by brain injury.
anomia
The difference between dysnomia and anomia is the level of function. This is indicated by the nature of the names, dys-nomia vs. a-nomia.
Other symptoms are difficulty naming objects or people (anomia), rambling speech, difficulty performing certain activities (apraxia), or failure to recognize certain objects (agnosia).
or language difficulties such as aphasia or dysarthria (impaired speech and language skills), poor enunciation, poor understanding of speech, impaired writing, impaired ability to read or to understand writing, inability to name objects (anomia) ...
Speaking in short, fragmented phrases
Putting words in the wrong order
Using incorrect grammar
Switching sounds or words
Speaking in nonsense
Anomia (word-finding problems; words "on the tip of the tongue") ...
(a problem understanding or producing words) or dysarthria (a problem making the sounds of words), poor enunciation, poor understanding of speech, impaired writing, impaired ability to read or to understand writing, inability to name objects (anomia) ...
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 See also: Aphasia, Stroke, Symptom, Injury, Trauma
  
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