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This content is provided by iMedix and is subject to iMedix Terms. The Questions and Answers are not endorsed or recommended and are made available by patients, not doctors. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Link to this page: stroke Indrani's bail application said she was suffering from `chronic small vessels inchemic changes', and as a result the supply of oxygen to the brain may stop, leading to a life threatening brain stroke. She suffered frequent blackouts due to her condition, it said, adding that it took around 45 to 60 minutes to reach hospital from the Byculla women's prison where she is lodged. This brings the total number of Palestinians who have been shot dead by Israeli forces since the first of October to 57, including 13 children and Fadi al-Darbi, 30, a detainee, who died ten days ago in the Israeli hospital of Soroka after suffering a brain stroke as a result of deliberate medical negligence by Israeli Prison Service.

The main treatment for aphasia involves treating the condition that causes it, as well as speech and language therapy. The person with aphasia relearns and practices language skills and learns to use other ways to communicate. Family members often participate in the process, helping the person communicate. Symptoms Aphasia is a symptom of some other condition, such as a stroke or a brain tumor. A person with aphasia may: • Speak in short or incomplete sentences • Speak in sentences that don't make sense • Substitute one word for another or one sound for another • Speak unrecognizable words • Have difficulty finding words • Not understand other people's conversation • Not understand what they read • Write sentences that don't make sense Patterns of aphasia People with aphasia may have different strengths and weaknesses in their speech patterns. Sometimes these patterns are labeled as different types of aphasia, including: • Broca's aphasia • Wernicke aphasia • Transcortical aphasia • Conduction aphasia • Mixed aphasia • Global aphasia These patterns describe how well the person can understand what others say. They also describe how easy it is for the person to speak or to correctly repeat what someone else says. Aphasia may develop slowly over time. When that happens, the aphasia may be labeled with one of these names: • Logopenic aphasia • Semantic aphasia • Agrammatism Many people with aphasia have patterns of speech difficulty that don't match these types. It may help to...