Broca’s aphasia is a speech disorder caused by injury to the brain’s Broca’s area, resulting in difficulty forming complete sentences. Recovery is possible through various treatments, but depression and anxiety can negatively impact recovery.
Broca’s aphasia, also known as expressive aphasia, is a form of speech disorder in which a person is unable to form complete, articulate sentences correctly. This condition typically occurs after a stroke or some form of injury to a region in the front of the brain known as Broca’s area. Broca’s aphasia typically does not affect a person’s ability to understand what someone else is saying, but instead affects that person’s ability to put their thoughts into the correct words and to put those words in the correct order.
The most common cause of Broca’s aphasia is a stroke, during which the regular flow of oxygen to part of the brain is cut off. While this form of expressive aphasia can occur when a stroke affects a different part of the brain, it’s usually caused by a stroke in or around Broca’s area. It is important to note that Broca’s aphasia is not a muscle disorder. This condition is not caused by a person’s inability to control their mouth or facial muscles.
Broca’s aphasia is a neurological disease. The person with this type of aphasia can form words and sentences very well; he is simply unable to put the thoughts in his head in the correct order to express them correctly. In fact, many times a person will be able to repeat memorized phrases or songs perfectly, but will not be able to repeat the song’s lines in a non-musical context.
Typically, a person with Broca’s aphasia will not be able to use inflection correctly in their speech. Sufferers of this form of aphasia will also often have difficulty with sentence structures that change word order such as English-language “wh” questions, which require movement of the subject in the sentence to form correctly. Function words, which can include auxiliary verbs, prepositions, pronouns, and conjunctions, are often left out of sentences, leaving the remaining words disjointed and sometimes devoid of full meaning.
Luckily for someone with Broca’s aphasia caused by stroke, there’s usually a fair amount of recovery possible. Most recovery by someone with the condition will occur within the first year after a stroke or injury that caused the disorder. A certain amount of regular speech can be recovered during this time through a variety of treatments. No single course of treatment has been shown to be superior and the type of therapy applied usually depends on the individual suffering from the condition. It is important to note, however, that depression, anxiety and social withdrawal have all been shown to negatively impact a patient’s recovery and therefore anyone affected by the condition should be encouraged to continue with their daily lives as effectively as possible.
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