Spontaneous otogenic pneumocephalus is a rare condition and was previously understood to present with subtle symptoms of headache, aphasia and cognitive deficits.
Broca's area is partly responsible for the ability to produce and process language, and Broca's aphasia often leaves its sufferers with some ability to understand speech, but an inability to produce intelligible words.
The 67-year-old who starred in blockbuster films such as Die Hard and Pulp Fiction announced his retirement in the spring last year, following a diagnosis of aphasia.
Anomia is an ongoing issue that's often a symptom of aphasia, a broad category of communication and language difficulties related to brain damage or a brain disorder.
Broca's aphasia can sometimes be treated by teaching patients to sing, because singing uses a different region of the brain — one that's on the right side and that's analogous to Broca's area on the left.
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He discovered that aphasia, the inability to understand and formulate language, was linked to lesions in part of the frontal lobe of the brain, later named Broca's area, after conducting autopsies on recently deceased patients.
There's other disorders of language such as receptive aphasia where the person could speak very fluently but the words don't make any sense and they can't understand anybody else.