Describe the symptoms of the brain disorder

Document Type:Coursework

Subject Area:Psychology

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In the fluent phase, the patient produces co-speech iconic gestures and eleven other gestures during lexical retrieval difficulties which differ in form to the co-speech iconic gestures. Struggle to find an appropriate word or rather a noun is another symptom of someone suffering a brain disorder. Here, the patient can depict an object either by its shape or function. In other cases, the patient wants to be more specific and focus on retrieving more attributes of the object and fails to find the right word (Cocks et al. Brain disorder patients are also found to use strange or inappropriate words in a conversation. In case of a stroke, it results in loss of ability to recognize and interpret visual stimuli faces.

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