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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Usually, aphasias are a result of damage (lesions) to the language centres of the brain (like Broca's area). These areas are almost always located in the left hemisphere, and in most people this is where the ability to produce and comprehend language is found. However, in a very small number of people language ability is found in the right hemisphere. In either case, damage to these language areas can be caused by a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or other head injury. Aphasia may also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor or progressively neurological disease. It may also be caused by a sudden hemorrhagic event within the brain.
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Alexia (disorder)
- Alzheimer's dementia
- Aortic Arch Syndrome
- Arcuate fasciculus damage
- Brain abscess
- Brain tumor
- Cerebral arteriovenous malformation
- Cerebral atrophy
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
- Cerebrovascular accident
- Dementia
- Dissociative state
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
- Gerstmann syndrome
- Hemispatial neglect
- Hemorrhage
- Herpes Encephalitis
- Hypoglycemia
- Insulin shock therapy
- Intracranial space-occupying lesion
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- Malignant Astrocytomas
- MASA syndrome
- Migraine
- Motor neuron disease
- Multi-infarct dementia
- Multiple sclerosis
- Nonconvulsive status epilepticus
- Pick's disease
- Postconcussion syndrome
- Rasmussen's encephalitis
- Santonin
- Schilder's disease
- Sedative-hypnotic drug intoxication
- Semantic dementia
- Senile dementia
- Stroke
- Subdural hematoma
- Temporal lobe abscess
- Temporal lobe atrophy
- Tertiary syphilis
- Thromboangitis obliterans
- Transient ischemic attack
- Trauma
- Traumatic brain injury
- Wernicke syndrome
- Wernicke's encephalopathy