Aphasia
In the world of post strokes or major brain injury there are many difficulties to overcome. One such difficulty is aphasia. The most common way to treat aphasia is through speech therapy, by using various techniques with picture images to repeat words. This gives the patients the ability to remember the words that they learned. However there is a newer treatment, Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT). This treatment has better results than the traditional therapy. The article, "From Singing to Speaking: Why Singing may Lead to Recovery of Expressive Language Function in Patients with Brocas's Aphasia" by Schlaug, Marchina, Norton (Schlaug, 2008), tries to prove that MIT works better on Patients with Broca's Aphasia.
Aphasia is a condition which is an inability to communicate or understand through language, which is either through speech, reading, writing, or listening. Aphasia is caused by brain injury usually to the left hemisphere of the brain where most of the language and communication from the brain comes from. However, some damages are in the right side where there are additional language and communication activity coming from the right hemisphere. The brain injury is usually caused do to deprived oxygen to the brain during strokes, injury due to impact of accident like car accidents and the like infection to...
Global aphasia affects all parts of the brain that have anything to do with language and communication. In this case of aphasia people have server difficulties in all sorts of communication.
Another case of aphasia is fluent aphasia which is commonly known as Wernick's Aphasia, is damages to the temporal lobe on the left side of the brain. With fluent aphasia people will speak long sentences with words that have no meanings and have no comprehension of spoken language. They will even make up their own words that sound like gibberish, as a result; it is often difficult to understand them. These individuals usually are unaware of their illness and how they sound.
Third type of aphasia is non-fluent aphasia, commonly known as Broca's aphasia results from damages to the left side front portion or frontal lobe of the language-dominant area of the brain. People with Broca's or can't speak at all or just say single words, like phone, which could mean please bring me the phone. If they speak more the one word to make up a sentence, it comes with great difficulty and they cannot use any conjunction words like a, the, and, but, and/or etc. These people can sing words nicely but have a…
