When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Anomic aphasia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomic_aphasia

    Anomic aphasia, also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia, is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). [1]

  3. Memory lapses: What’s normal, what’s not - AOL

    www.aol.com/memory-lapses-normal-not-143900261.html

    Memory lapses like these are common for people of all ages. “Mild forgetfulness — you forget somebody’s name or where you left something — that’s totally normal,” says Karlene Ball, Ph ...

  4. Tip of the tongue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_of_the_tongue

    The TOT state resolution was the same for priming words in the same syntactic class and unrelated priming words. [40] If the priming word is being listed in conjunction with other unrelated priming words, then the position is of importance. [40] The earlier in the list the priming word is, the less likely it is to help resolve the TOT state. [40]

  5. Aphasia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia

    Aphasia, also known as dysphasia, [a] is an impairment in a person’s ability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. [2] The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in developed countries. [3]

  6. Selective amnesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_amnesia

    Selective amnesia is a type of amnesia in which the sufferer loses only certain parts of their memory.Common elements that may be forgotten are relationships, where they live, and certain special abilities and talents (e.g., juggling, whistling, instrumental talents, etc.).

  7. New drug's potentially fatal side effects obscured by ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/drugs-potentially-fatal-side...

    Seventy-nine-year-old Genevieve Lane volunteered to take the Alzheimer's drug Leqembi in a clinical trial because she was forgetting words and misplacing her keys. Infusions of the drug gave her ...

  8. Hyperthymesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia

    Hyperthymesia, also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail.

  9. Levels of Processing model - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levels_of_Processing_model

    Phonemic processing includes remembering the word by the way it sounds (e.g. the word tall rhymes with fall). Lastly, we have semantic processing in which we encode the meaning of the word with another word that is similar or has similar meaning. Once the word is perceived, the brain allows for a deeper processing.