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Aphasia is a condition caused by brain damage that affects a person’s ability to use language and communicate effectively. In aphasia, damage to parts of the brain that are responsible for speaking, writing, reading and understanding speech may cause a person to have difficulty making sense of conversations, understanding instructions, or following what people are saying, for example.
There is no single brain area that is responsible for language. The language centre is made up of specific areas of the brain that work in unison to allow fluency and comprehension of written and spoken language. These areas include:
Aphasia results from damage to any of these areas, but the resulting language deficit is not necessarily specific to the brain area involved. Damage to Broca’s area, for example, will not necessarily lead to difficulty in stringing a sentence together, for example.
Damage to a certain area has unpredictable effects that vary considerably between individuals. Damage to more than one language area in the brain often causes more severe forms of aphasia such as global aphasia.
Some of the causes of aphasia include: