Wernicke's Aphasia On The Brain

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Aphasia is a complex and diverse phenomenon. It has two main categorize: Wernicke’s Aphasia and Broca’s Aphasia. Wernicke’s Aphaisa symptoms are where you have a sever impairment of the ability to understand written or spoken words. Also you have fluent, but meaning, speech. Wernicke is known as fluent and sensory aphasia because they can form grammatically correct sentences, but their utterances mean nothing. Broca Aphasia is known as expressive aphasia. It allows the patient to be able to understand words but they can’t speak. (Győrfi 484)
To help these patients many speech therapist not only work on speaking but they also work on the emotional part of speech therapy. The emotional elements is are a part of the right hemisphere of the brain,
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Also this will allow us to give hope to Bubba Crenshaw’s family. This case report also has very good visual aids that will be very helpful in this report.

Marinescu, D. C. "Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery: Actual Understanding, Future Perspectives." Romanian Journal Of Neurology 9.4 (2010): 173. Academic Search Complete. Web. 11 Oct. 2015.
Many people with aphasia go the clinical rehabilitation route and expect fast results; however, over ten percent of these people will still have aphasia at six months. While the clinical ways may take up to six months the non-clinical ways can take up to three months. For example, Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the cerebral hemisphere. This from a therapeutic stand point it allows the brain to more functional and morph able. (Marinescu 173)
This study will be very valuable because it has mostly graphs of recovery times versus non- clinical and clinical processes. Also introduces the new technique called Transcranial Magnetic stimulation, which gives Bubba Crenshaw another option.
Palmer, Rebecca, et al. "Clinical And Cost Effectiveness Of Computer Treatment For Aphasia Post Stroke (Big CACTUS): Study Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial." Trials 16.1 (2015): 1-12. Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Oct.

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