Word: aphasia
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...books like “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” a world populated by Sacks’s patients, many of whom have neurological disorders like amnesia, Parkinson’s, Tourette’s, aphasia, and autism. Sacks believes that through the experience of these patients we can witness, in its most basic forms, the “wonderful machinery” that gives rise to human beings’ love of music.Over the course of the essays, Sacks introduces a range of bizarre...
...even remotely-pondered questions of Pinochet’s mental capacity to stand trial before, there absolutely are now. When an 89-year-old suffers a stroke, former dictator or otherwise, there is serious cause for concern. According to the American Stroke Association, 19 percent of stroke sufferers suffer aphasia (trouble speaking or understanding the speech of others), and old age is the ultimate compounding factor when judging the impact of any ailment. While prosecutors have already dismissed the stroke itself as yet another ruse to avoid being held to account, Chile’s judicial system must now tread...
Jancy Chang was a talented artist and teacher, and only in her 40s, when the symptoms of dementia began to appear. She had a rare form of progressive aphasia that would sap her language skills and force her to retire from teaching at 52. But even as she was losing the ability to make lesson plans, grade homework or remember the names of her students, her artistic vision seemed to be expanding (see right). "Her painting became wilder and freer and more original as her language declined," says Dr. Bruce Miller, a neurologist at the University of California...
...Judy and Paul Karasik alternates prose chapters written by Judy with comix by Paul. The resulting tag-team style provides two sides of a family's story of growing up with an autistic older brother. David Karasik, born in the 1940s, was first diagnosed as having "aphasia," or being "brain damaged," long before autism became a concept that TIME magazine would put on its cover. As the Karasiks describe him, David struggles to put order to a world that arrives in splinters. To help him do so he comes up with systems. Clearly a fundamentally creative and intelligent person...
...artistic aphasia of Yamaide's Nowhere mirrors the contrived nothingness of Martin Creed's The Lights Going On and Off, which won last year's Turner Prize. The Palais de Tokyo's curators seem intent on recreating the buzz that surrounded British conceptualism of the 1990s. But as last year's Turner awards so amply demonstrated, today's British scene has degenerated into a media circus. Conceptual art has always been about ideas. For it to be interesting, though, the ideas have to be new. Tired ironic commentaries on consumer society are not good enough. For all the post-postmodern...