Actor Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his family said. – via healthing_ca brainhealth BruceWillis
, as they are generally aware that they aren’t speaking in full sentences, and want to speak normally.People with receptive or comprehensive aphasia primarily have difficulty understanding other people, and experience frequent confusion or find it hard to follow a conversation. They might speak in long and complex sentences that don’t make a lot of sense or include made-up words. They also might not realize that what they’re saying doesn’t make sense to other people.
Some people will experience both expressive and receptive aphasia simultaneously, while others may develop only one. Global aphasia is the most severe type, causing people to struggle with every kind of communication, including speaking, understanding, reading and writing. They may speak a few familiar words, but they have a lot of difficulty both understanding other people and being understood, and usually can’t read or write, according to the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’sThe first step in treating aphasia is to address the cause of the brain damage.
There are a number of different therapy methods. Some will focus on a specific form of language, like verbs or sentence structure. It might involve memorizing synonyms for commonly-used words,
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