GENERAL HISTOLOGY

NERVOUS SYSTEM SPECIAL SENSE

CEREBRUM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A patient who can speak, but cannot understand the questions you are asking them is experiencing:
A
Non-fluent aphasia
B
Word salad
C
Word deafness
D
Word blindness
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The patient is usually unable to recognize both spoken words and environmental sounds. If only the comprehension of spoken language is affected, the disorder is called verbal auditory agnosia or pure word deafness. If only environmental sounds are affected, the person is said to have nonverbal auditory agnosia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aphasia is a disorder where you have problems speaking or understanding what other people say. It usually happens because of damage to part of your brain but can also happen with conditions that disrupt how your brain works.

Detailed explanation-3: -But, some people may end up getting the shorter end of the stick-they can sometimes only understand a language without actually being able to speak it-a phenomenon officially called receptive multilingualism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Speaking in long and nonsensical sentences Damage to Wernicke’s area may cause someone to make up nonsense words or speak in long sentences that have no meaning. The person also may not realize that others can’t understand them. This is called Wernicke’s aphasia or fluent aphasia.

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