anomic aphasia

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Noun1.anomic aphasia - inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects
aphasia - inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
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During the neurological examination, the patient was well oriented, displayed fluent, coherent spontaneous language, and had mild dysnomia. He had remarkable clinical symptoms of parkinsonism: glabellar reflex was persistent; the patient presented a decreased blinking rate, hypomimia, moderate bradykinesia and hypokinesia in the right limbs, and slow gait with reduced right arm swing (Hoehn & Yahr stage I).
In contrast to the dysnomia related to dementia, the word-finding difficulties with normal aging typically improve with cues, indicating that the problem is in retrieval of information rather than storage.
Whether this is a difficulty retaining or processing information (a common problem with children who suffer from dysnomia) or an issue with poor attention (such as ADD), they can have an extremely negative effect on their academic progress.
Following Fukuda et al.'s (1994) criteria, it is identified with at least 4 indicators: impaired short-term memory and concentration (in addition to dysnomia and anomia), different pains (noting headaches), non-restorative sleep (and hypersomnia) and malaise after exercise with duration exceeding 24 hours.
A reduction in categorical fluency and dysnomia was evidenced.