Hollywood star Bruce Willis, who starred in many classic movies, suddenly announced his retirement at the age of 67, mainly because his family confirmed that Bruce Willis suffered from “aphasia” ”, gradually losing the ability to speak and read. What exactly is aphasia?
The location of the brain lesions is in the language center, which is prone to symptoms of aphasia. The most common cause is stroke.
What causes aphasia?
Bruce Willie’s family said on the community: “Bruce Willie has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is affecting his cognitive abilities, and the thoughtful decision to leave means a lot to him. work.” This news shocked many fans who love him, but what causes “aphasia”?
According to domestic research statistics, it is roughly estimated that there are about 40,000 to 65,000 people with aphasia in China. If a specific area of the brain related to language is damaged, it will lead to aphasia. The most common cause is stroke, Brain tumor compression, traumatic injury to the language area, some degenerative diseases affecting the language area.
And each person’s language center is different on the left and right. Most people’s right-handed brain is on the left side, and the language center is usually on the left side of the brain. Brain stroke, brain tumor, trauma may cause aphasia, and vice versa for people who are left-handed.
The injury of the language center determines the symptoms of the patient. In fact, human beings can communicate through the complex mechanism of the brain. The language center needs to be understood first and then spoken. It is a high brain function training. There are many kinds of aphasia. Expression, according to the location of the central injury, can be easily divided into two types. Compared with the previous language center, it manages the ability to express. If the prefrontal lobe is damaged, it will be difficult to express; if the parietal lobe is damaged, there will be no expression. It is easy to understand what others say, which belongs to comprehension aphasia.
Often these two functions must be normal to communicate and speak normally. How to judge whether a patient has aphasia? Clinically, physical examinations, tests, and imaging examinations are conducted to see if there is any injury in a specific language area. However, some patients are not simply aphasia, and may be combined with other brain function degeneration and dementia.
It seems to be Bruce Willie’s condition. It may also be due to the deterioration of brain function that leads to difficulty in language expression. In addition, the nature of his past action film shooting work has also It may be related to the history of injury, but the most common clinical problem is that strokes cause incomprehension or inability to speak.
Is it okay to have aphasia?
If aphasia is suspected, the clinician will arrange an MRI to confirm the injury site, extent, and impact, and then study and judge the subsequent recovery. If the damage to the language center is serious, the degree of recovery may be recovered after rehabilitation. Not so good. If the nerve fibers around the language center are injured and trained, the recovery will be better, and it will not say that there is no way to express or understand what others say.
The brain is the most complex mechanism in the human body. It is best to find out the cause of aphasia first. If there is obvious damage, you must receive speech therapy, so that the patient can slowly practice language expression, just rehabilitation. The relatively long process may take more than a year.