In a time before the rise and fall of Anomia.

Semantic anomia is a disorder in which the meaning of words becomes lost.

Many different populations can and do suffer from anomia.

Language impairment is a symptom, particularly a reduced ability to name people and things (anomia).

Anomia, word finding difficulty, is one of the most common feature in aphasia.

Some level of anomia is seen in all of the aphasias.

Stroke, head trauma and brain tumors can cause anomia.

Anomia, a difficulty in finding the right word is most often evidenced through picture naming impairments.

The presence of language impairment, especially dysnomia or anomia.

Bilingual patients typically experience anomia to a greater degree in just one of their fluent languages.

The most pervasive deficit in the aphasias is anomia.

Anomic patients have many symptoms and it means that anomia can be sub-divided into several symptom groups.

Researchers have called this subtype sign anomia.

John defines it as anomia - lawlessness.

Patients with Alzheimer's disease have speech problems that are linked to dementia or progressive aphasias which can include anomia.

Some patients with word selection anomia may exhibit selective impairment in naming particular types of objects, such as animals or colors.

There are three main types of anomia:

In patients with semantic anomia, a naming deficit is accompanied by a recognition deficit.

His dissertation was titled, "Mood, self-derogation and anomia as factors in response unreliability".

Disconnection anomia results from the severing of connections between sensory and language cortices.

Language problems include dysprosodia, agrammatism and mild anomia.

Patients with Broca's aphasia may also have difficulty with word retrieval, or anomia.

This type of anomia may also arise as a consequence of a disconnect between sensory and language cortices.

Thus, in such a case, the patient's anomia arises as a consequence of a disconnect between his/her visual cortex and language cortices.

Some of the patients received a drug known to help relieve symptoms of anomia (levodopa) while others received a placebo.