With conduction aphasia, a person may have difficulty repeating words, even though they understand them, while anomic aphasia, a person may have difficulty naming objects, even though they know ...

Actor Bruce Willis is taking a break from acting and his family announced on social media Wednesday that the 67-year-old has been diagnosed with aphasia.

People with anomic aphasia may be able to speak and understand language, but they have difficulty retrieving everyday words. They may misname objects or mispronounce words.

There are other types of aphasia, including conduction aphasia that affects the ability to repeat what you hear, and anomic aphasia, where you can’t remember the names of things.

Aphasia is a debilitating speech and language disorder that stems from brain damage. It's as common as some other neurological conditions -- such as Parkinson's disease -- but aphasia isn't nearly ...

But he had a hopeful note: anomic aphasia is much less common now that middle-ear infections are so readily controlled by sulfas and antibiotics.

Aphasia is a condition characterized by the sudden loss of the ability to communicate. It commonly occurs after brain injury, usually after a stroke.

There are several types of aphasia, including global, Broca’s, Wernicke’s, primary progressive, anomic and mixed non-fluent aphasia.

5) Anomic aphasia–this term is applied to persons who are left with persistent inability to supply the words for the very things they want to talk about, particularly the significant nouns and ...

Although anomic aphasia is common after strokes to the left hemisphere of the brain, the associated word-finding difficulties do not appear to be distinguishable by specific areas.

Someone suffering from anomic aphasia may suffer to find specific verbs and nouns that they need to get their point across, and will speak very vaguely.