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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Swearing in aphasia

This is just speculation, but since singing has a different location and singing therapy is one way to bring back communication skills. Does swearing have a different location? And can we train aphasia patients to swear in different languages to try to communicate? They seem to have no problem spitting out swear words in rapid order. Things are all bollixed up. Let them out.
Ok , some research here.

Expletives: neurolinguistic and neurobehavioral perspectives on swearing

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165017399000600

Abstract

Severe aphasia, adult left hemispherectomy, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS), and other neurological disorders have in common an increased use of swearwords. There are shared linguistic features in common across these language behaviors, as well as important differences. We explore the nature of swearing in normal human communication, and then compare the clinical presentations of selectively preserved, impaired and augmented swearing. These neurolinguistic observations, considered along with related neuroanatomical and neurochemical information, provide the basis for considering the neurobiological foundation of various types of swearing behaviors.

1 comment:

phildoggJanuary 7, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Now that's funny! I possessed quite the potty mouth being a former teamster. I was in plenty of docks where the language is not nice or pleasant. Even when I was going thru rehab, I noticed what I thought was normal speech came out as vulgar language. I couldn't help it. The bad words I couldn't forget. But the proper names I could not remember. I was quite surprised when I looked at the horror my therapists had on their faces.
I could speak in Spanish for the names of the cards they were showing me in rehab. When they showed me a picture of a table, I would say "mesa" and when they would show me the color red, I would say "rojo". I'm not fluent in Spanish, but I know enough Spanish to get me a beer or to the bathroom in Mexico.
Yes, I agree with you, the part of the brain where language and swearing, must come from the same area. That is to say, from a different location than where speech comes from.
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