Aphasia After Stroke

🔬Causes & Risk Factors

• 1Aphasia after stroke results from damage to the specific brain regions responsible for language processing and production
• 2most often located in the left hemisphere of the brain
• 3when blood flow to these areas is interrupted by an ischemic stroke or disrupted by bleeding from a hemorrhagic stroke. The location and extent of brain damage determine the specific type and severity of aphasia experienced
• 4with damage to different language centers producing distinctly different patterns of difficulty with speaking versus understanding language. The risk of developing aphasia after stroke depends largely on which brain artery is affected.