Aphasia / Cannabis

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Aphasia / Cannabis


Overcoming aphasia

overcoming aphasia

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On August 18, 2008 A La Times medical reporter interviewed a group of doctors that were researching the benefits of medical marijuana. The issue of whether marijuana has any medical benefits is all determined on whom you ask--should marijuana be labeled with the dangerous drugs like PCP and heroin, or is it a miracle herb that has an abundance of uses and is being suppressed by the government--perhaps its something in between: an herb with tremendous medical benefits yet with drawbacks, worth looking into.



While the political arguments continue over medical marijuana, a group of researchers continues to investigate the effects of inhaled marijuana to treat muscle spasms, nausea, and pain.



Doctors have long understood that all drugs come attached with risk--in most American homes the medicine cabinets are stuffed with aspirin, antihistamines, and pain killers. What Doctors try to do is balance out the risk versus the benefits of what the medicine can do--some argue this should be the same approach when it comes to looking at marijuana.





Studies found no hippocampal damage from cannabis. An MRI study from 2005 of very heavy cannabis users who had used cannabis on average of 20,100 times found no damage to the hippocampus at all. A study of cannabis-using young adults from 2006 found no damage to the hippocampus, or to any other structure. And a third study also found no hippocampal damage .



The study of users from 2006 also found no damage to the amygdala. This study actually found that the hippocampus-amygdala was 5% larger in the cannabis users than in the non-users, but the difference was not thought to be significant.



For what it is worth, 15-18 year olds with alcohol abuse (extremely common at that age) and alcohol dependence also showed hippocampal shrinkage. Even chronic stress such as is seen in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder causes shrinkage of the hippocampus. Such shrinkage is also a completely normal part of aging for all humans, and probably becomes apparent first around age 40.








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Signs and symptoms



People with aphasia may experience any of the following behaviors due to an acquired brain injury, although some of these symptoms may be due to related or concomitant problems such as dysarthria or apraxia and not primarily due to aphasia.

• inability to comprehend language
  
  
  
• inability to pronounce, not due to muscle paralysis or weakness
  
  
  
• inability to speak spontaneously
  
  
  
• inability to form words
  
  
  
• inability to name objects
  
  
  
• poor enunciation
  
  
  
• excessive creation and use of personal neologisms
  
  
  
• inability to repeat a phrase
  
  
  
• persistent repetition of phrases
  
  
  

• paraphasia (substituting letters, syllables or words)
  
  
  
• agrammatism (inability to speak in a grammatically correct fashion)
  
  
  
• dysprosody (alterations in inflexion, stress, and rhythm)
  
  
  
• incomplete sentences
  
  
  
• inability to read
  
  
  
• inability to write
  
  
  
• limited verbal output
  
  
  
• difficulty in naming
  
  
  
• Speech disorder
  
  
  

Progressive aphasias



Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is associated with progressive illnesses or dementia, such as frontotemporal dementia / Pick Complex Motor neuron disease, Progressive supranuclear palsy, and Alzheimer's disease; which is the gradual process of losing the ability to think. It is characterized by the gradual loss of the ability to name objects. People suffering from PPA may have difficulties comprehending what others are saying. They can also have difficulty trying to find the right words to make a sentence.^[11]^[12]^[13] There are three classifications of Primary Progressive Aphasia : Progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA), Semantic Dementia (SD), and Logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA)^[14]

Progressive Jargon Aphasia is a fluent or receptive aphasia in which the patient's speech is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to them. Speech is fluent and effortless with intact syntax and grammar, but the patient has problems with the selection of nouns. They will either replace the desired word with another that sounds or looks like the original one, or has some other connection, or they will replace it with sounds. Accordingly, patients with jargon aphasia often use neologisms, and may perseverate if they try to replace the words they can't find with sounds. Commonly, substitutions involve picking another (actual) word starting with the same sound (e.g. clocktower - colander), picking another semantically related to the first (e.g. letter - scroll), or picking one phonetically similar to the intended one (e.g. lane - late).

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ty, kirk. this made me tear up.



as you know mom was afflicted with aphasia. we were all, self, friends , drs, astounded at the positive affects of cannabis on mom's speach. on large doses, 2 1/2 to 3 grams of hash oil per day, she became lucid and appropriate! it is truly a miracle!