Above is a video with an older man who suffers from Broca's Aphasia. When I first started reading about this problem I was uncertain to what degree it can be. You can tell that the man is very frustrated and maybe even a little sad that he cannot connect his words with what he is thinking. I thought it would be interesting to do some research in how they help people with Broca's Aphasia and to see if there was any type of treatment that has been found. One of my favorite websites, Livestrong, has a whole page about brain exercises for people with this problem. The two exercises that the website talks about is the opposites and the prepositions exercise. To people that don't have this problem it seems like such a simple task. Whats the opposite of happy? Obviously, most people would say something along the lines of sad. It's hard for me to even picture not being about to process the opposite of the words and be able to state them out loud. Not knowing a word for something is always so frustrating so can you imagine that happening to you all the time? I also found it interesting that people with Broca's can read one sentence but not the other even thought saying them out loud it says the exact same thing. I believe this is an important problem to know about because you never know if someone you know could suffer from brain damage that causes Broca's Aphasia.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Broca's Aphasia
Above is a video with an older man who suffers from Broca's Aphasia. When I first started reading about this problem I was uncertain to what degree it can be. You can tell that the man is very frustrated and maybe even a little sad that he cannot connect his words with what he is thinking. I thought it would be interesting to do some research in how they help people with Broca's Aphasia and to see if there was any type of treatment that has been found. One of my favorite websites, Livestrong, has a whole page about brain exercises for people with this problem. The two exercises that the website talks about is the opposites and the prepositions exercise. To people that don't have this problem it seems like such a simple task. Whats the opposite of happy? Obviously, most people would say something along the lines of sad. It's hard for me to even picture not being about to process the opposite of the words and be able to state them out loud. Not knowing a word for something is always so frustrating so can you imagine that happening to you all the time? I also found it interesting that people with Broca's can read one sentence but not the other even thought saying them out loud it says the exact same thing. I believe this is an important problem to know about because you never know if someone you know could suffer from brain damage that causes Broca's Aphasia.
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i would be frustrated, and provably will become crazy; not being able to do express my thoughts, i mean just the feeling of not being able to say what i think just drives me crazy. broca's aphasia, it must be a scary problem to have, even thought we could feel great but just by not being able to communicate that is the big issue.
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