Sensory aphasia is characterized by a loss of the ability to understand oral speech. With such a violation, the physiology of hearing is not broken and the patient perfectly hears absolutely everything that is told to him, but he can not interpret what he has heard.
Causes and Symptoms of Sensory Aphasia
Sensory aphasia occurs when the cortical portion of the auditory analyzer is damaged. This pathological process is localized in the region of the upper temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex. Experts have established many reasons for the appearance of this type of ailment.
Practically all sensory forms of aphasia are caused by:
- defeat of the neoplasia by the tumor process;
- development of inflammatory diseases;
- traumatic injuries;
- encephalitis ;
- leukoencephalitis;
- Pick's disease.
Some types of psychic disorders also provoke the development of disturbances in the perception of oral speech. Very often, sensory aphasia occurs after a stroke .
A person who suffers from this problem can speak, but only scraps of words, among themselves they have no connection. In this case, this condition is accompanied by pronounced motor activity and increased emotionality. A patient with sensory aphasia in most cases is able to fulfill simple requests (sit down, wave with his hand, close his eyes) and even burn with simple simple monosyllables, but he does not understand the meaning and meaning of requests and words.
It is almost impossible to understand a person with this problem. Reading and writing from them are grossly violated, although in some cases the deletion function remains. Sensory aphasia can have symptoms such as:
- acalculium;
- upper quadrant hemianopsia;
- violated right-left orientation.
Treatment of sensory aphasia
To date, medicine believes that the treatment of sensory aphasia in virtually all cases is meaningless. But as practice shows, the achievement of positive results is possible, however, only in mild forms of the development of the disease and will take this process for several years.
The syndrome of sensory aphasia is treated with the help of a speech therapist-aphasiologist. Begin to conduct them necessary already in the next week after a stroke or a couple of days after recovery in other diseases. It is very important during the therapy not to fix the patient's attention to his defect, to encourage even the slightest of his successes and to establish an exchange of information between him and the doctor.