There are rehabilitation services for these kinds of situations and it seems he is recovering well. Of course, it takes extensive hours of hard work and patience to recover from something like this but it's totally doable.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Why we say what we say
Communication is, most of the time, taken for granted. We don't realize how essential it is to our everyday lives. We are always communicating with other people around us via different means of expression. The most common type is our language and writing abilities. Now, you might think, how is it that we can talk and write? We often don't think of what part of our brain is responsible for these important tasks. For the majority of humans, the area responsible for language and writing is the left hemisphere of our brain. Broca's area is responsible for the spoken language and forming complete sentences. Wernick's area is responsible for the comprehension of such language. Imagine if you weren't able to communicate what you're thinking to another person? It would be incredibly frustrating.
Usually when people aren't able to communicate what they want to say it's because they've had a stroke and it affected the left hemisphere of the brain, and in consequence also the language areas. The term for term used to describe someone who has had this happen to them is aphasia, which is a language disability. The following video shows a guy that had a stroke and affected his left hemisphere. Due to the stroke and since each hemisphere is responsible for the opposite side of the body, he experiences Broca's aphasia and right side weakness on his entire body. It shows how he has difficulty forming words he wants to say as well as walking.
There are rehabilitation services for these kinds of situations and it seems he is recovering well. Of course, it takes extensive hours of hard work and patience to recover from something like this but it's totally doable.
There are rehabilitation services for these kinds of situations and it seems he is recovering well. Of course, it takes extensive hours of hard work and patience to recover from something like this but it's totally doable.
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It is amazing how the brain controls practically every aspect of our lives. Also like you expressed how we take things for granted and might not stop and think how the brain enables us to communicate by speech. Most people probably think that our thoughts simply flow into words when we desire to express something. Sadly people who suffer from aphasia as the person in the video have a very hard time speaking. A stroke has life changing consequences in our every day activities.
ReplyDeleteI found this to be very interesting and at the same time sad since the guy in the video looked so young and he was having to go through something like this. But over time with therapy and motivation a person could learn to function better and the language would also improve with practice. I remember when my grandfather had a stoke a couple of years ago he was unable to move his left side of the body but over time with therapy and rehabilitation he has improved and is walking on his own now. Well he does need his cane to walk but unlike before when he couldn’t even move his left feet or arm now he is doing much better and every day that I see him he seems to be improving. I say the only way they could improve from a stoke would be with much therapy and rehabilitation and keep moving and thinking positive and over time they could be much better.
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