"Anomia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A language dysfunction characterized by the inability to name people and objects that are correctly perceived. The individual is able to describe the object in question, but cannot provide the name. This condition is associated with lesions of the dominant hemisphere involving the language areas, in particular the TEMPORAL LOBE. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p484)
| Descriptor ID |
D000849
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.606.150.500.090 C23.888.592.604.150.500.090
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| Concept/Terms |
Anomia- Anomia
- Aphasia, Amnesic
- Amnesic Aphasia
- Nominal Dysphasia
- Dysphasia, Nominal
- Dysphasias, Nominal
- Nominal Dysphasias
- Aphasia, Nominal
- Nominal Aphasia
- Dysnomia
- Dysnomias
- Anomic Dysphasia
- Anomic Dysphasias
- Dysphasia, Anomic
- Dysphasias, Anomic
- Aphasia, Anomic
- Anomic Aphasia
Color Anomia- Color Anomia
- Anomia, Color
- Anomias, Color
- Color Anomias
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Anomia" by people in Profiles.
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Speech and Language Presentations of FTLD-TDP Type B Neuropathology. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2020 03 01; 79(3):277-283.
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Prelexical representations and processes in reading: evidence from acquired dyslexia. Cogn Neuropsychol. 2013; 30(6):360-95.
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Semantic interference during object naming in agrammatic and logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Brain Lang. 2012 Mar; 120(3):237-50.
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Dysnomia, ataxia, choreoathetosis, sensory impairment, and gait imbalance after lentiform nucleus stroke. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2009 Nov-Dec; 18(6):494-6.
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Neurology of anomia in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia. Brain. 2009 Sep; 132(Pt 9):2553-65.
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Covert processing of words and pictures in nonsemantic variants of primary progressive aphasia. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2008 Oct-Dec; 22(4):343-51.