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Volume 2, Issue 1
Neurosurg
ISSN: 2471-9633
Global Stroke 2017
July 05-06, 2017
Neurodegenerative Disorders and Stroke
July 05-06, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany
4
th
International Conference on
Aphasia, strokes in Broca’s and Wernicke's area
Öznur Kaymak
Kocaeli University, Turkey
W
e investigated the aphasic strokes that occur in the Broca’s and Wernicke's area. Aphasia is divided into different forms that
include: Global, anomic, Broca’s, Wernicke's and other varieties. In this paper, we analysed Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia that
lead to communication handicaps. These kinds of aphasia result in injury to the brain, usually taking place by a stroke, and cause
production and comprehension impairment of the speech. Broca’s aphasic patients whose frontal lobe of the left hemisphere of their
brain has been lesioned have some problems with language production. That is, they generally know what they want to say, but cannot
utter more than four words, output is rather limited. For this reason, it is also called as non-fluent aphasia. Wernicke’s aphasic patients
whose posterior portion of the left temporal lobe which involved understanding the language has been lesioned can produce the
speech and utter sentences well, but cannot clutch the meaning of the spoken words. That is, the patient put the sentences provided
with no coherence in order irrespectively. The evidence from this study shows that the patients who try to survive with aphasia cannot
be treated completely; however, the reversibility of the aphasia is dependent on support of a doctor, speech pathologist, and the people
around them.
Biography
Öznur Kaymak is a student who currently studies English language at Kocaeli University, Turkey. She studied Linguistics at Universität Kassel, Germany for four
months. She is interested in Neurolinguistics and Disorders related to strokes. She is planning to pursue Master’s degree in Neurolinguistics next year.
oznurkymk95@gmail.comÖznur Kaymak, Neurosurg 2017, 2:1
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9633-C1-002