Word: aphasia
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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...
...once peripatetic Ram Dass gets around these days by wheelchair or, as he calls it, his swan boat. While working on a manuscript about aging in 1997, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He remains partially paralyzed and has aphasia. When he was able to resume writing, the experience had enriched his understanding, and, as he writes in his new book, Still Here, "it gave me an encounter with a kind of physical suffering that often accompanies aging." Had it happened when he was young, he says, he would have been thrown into turmoil. "I can accept more now because...
...standards of mercy, Jane deserved a quick and early death. In 1957, at the age of 40, she suffered a stroke that cruelly afflicted her with aphasia - the in ability to write or grasp the meaning of some of the simplest words. One of her doctors said of Jane's illness: "If you were to devise how best to undermine the mind of a writer, you couldn't think of a better means than this." She lingered on through cycles of recovery and deterioration for over 15 years, witnessing the success of Paul as a novelist - not missing...