Come si cura l afasia?

Come si cura l afasia?

I pazienti afasici vengono curati mediante una mirata riabilitazione della comunicazione. A tal proposito, è necessaria una distinzione in base alla gravità della malattia: la strategia terapeutica intrapresa dai soggetti affetti da afasia lieve è indirizzata alla “cura dei pensieri”, piuttosto che delle parole.

Quali sono le aree cerebrali coinvolte nel linguaggio?

L'area di Broca è la regione di corteccia cerebrale nota per avere un ruolo chiave nella produzione e comprensione del linguaggio. Connessa all'area di Wernicke sul lobo temporale, l'area di Broca localizza sul lobo frontale dell'emisfero cerebrale dominante, in una zona denominata circonvoluzione frontale inferiore.

What are the Broca and Broca areas?

• It is made up of two areas: the pars triangularis (Brodmann area 45) and the pars opercularis (Brodmann area 44). The Broca area is connected to other regions of the brain, including the Wernicke area, by a neuronal tract known as the arcuate fasciculus. In addition to serving a role in speech production,...

What happens to Broca's area during a brain tumor?

• Further, fMRI studies have also identified activation patterns in Broca's area associated with various language tasks. However, slow destruction of the Broca's area by brain tumors can leave speech relatively intact, suggesting its functions can shift to nearby areas in the brain.

What is the role of Broca's area in language comprehension?

• However, there is evidence to demonstrate that Broca's area also plays a significant role in language comprehension. Patients with lesions in Broca's area who exhibit agrammatical speech production also show inability to use syntactic information to determine the meaning of sentences.

What is the relationship between Broca's area and Broca's aphasia?

• Since studies carried out in the late 1970s it has been understood that the relationship between Broca's area and Broca's aphasia is not as consistent as once thought. Lesions to Broca's area alone don't result in a Broca's aphasia, nor do Broca's aphasic patients necessarily have lesions in Broca's area.