These non-language areas sometimes assist people with aphasia when communication is difficult.

当交流十分困难的时候，这些非语言区域有时也会帮助语患者。

And what kind of treatments are available for people who are experiencing aphasia?

对于语患者有哪些治疗方法？

Scientists have been conducting experiments using new forms of technology, which they believe may encourage brain plasticity in people with aphasia.

科学家们在用新的技术开展实验，希望达到增强语患者大脑可塑性的目标。

Meanwhile, many people with aphasia remain isolated, afraid that others won't understand them or give them extra time to speak.

现在 许多语患者依然与世隔绝，他们怕别人理解他们在说什么，或者给他们多一点时间去表达。

So that's kind of the end goal for people of aphasia.

所以这是语患者的最终目标。

Mendez said he recently saw three distinct aphasia patients in one day.

门德斯说，他最近在一天内接诊了三名截然同的语患者。

People with non-fluent aphasia, on the other hand, may have good comprehension but will experience long hesitations between words and make grammatical errors.

另一方面，非流畅型语患者或许有好的理解能力，但是会说话时出现长时间的停顿以及语法错误。

And we could say the same thing about COVID that our lesson says about people who have aphasia, right?

我们可以对 COVID 说同样的话，就像我们的课程对语患者说的一样，对吧？

In the 19th century, physicians Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke separately discovered two regions of the brain through conducting autopsies on aphasic patients.

19世纪，医生保罗·布罗卡（Paul Broca）和卡尔·韦尼克（Carl Wernicke）通过对语患者进行尸检，分别发现了大脑的两个区域。

She said with good medical care and speech therapy, most patients whose aphasia is related to a stroke or another brain injury should see some improvement.

她说， 通过良好的医疗护理和语言治疗，大多数与中风或其他脑损伤有关的语患者应该会有所改善。

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.

还有其他语言障碍，例如接受性语，患者可以非常流利地说话，但这些词没有任何意义，也听懂其他人的意思。

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.

布罗卡区部分负责产生和处理语言的能力，布罗卡语的患者通常有一些理解语言的能力，但无法说出可理解的单词。

Earlier brain-imaging studies showed that patients with severe aphasia could still solve mathematical problems, despite their difficulty in deciphering or producing language, but failed to pinpoint distinctions between brain regions dedicated to thought and those dedicated to language.

早期的脑成像研究表明，患有严重语的患者尽管难以破译或产生语言，但仍然可以解决数学问题，但未能查明专门负责思考的大脑区域和专门负责语言的大脑区域之间的区别。

Patients with aphasia can have speech-language therapy sessions to help improve their ability to communicate, and a study on psychogenic aphonia has shown that people can usually make a full recovery of their voice after not speaking for a while!

语患者可以进行言语治疗， 以帮助提他们的沟通能力，一项关于心因性语的研究表明， 人们通常可以在一段时间说话后完全恢复声音！