Aphasia
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A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernike's area, causes aphasia.
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History
The first recorded case of aphasia is from an Egyptian papyrus, the Edwin Smith Papyrus, which details speech problems in a person with a traumatic brain injury to the temporal lobe.
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Notable cases
Maurice Ravel
Jan Berry of Jan and Dean
Sven Nykvist
Robert E. Lee
Edwyn Collins
Paul David Wilson
Joseph Chaikin
Sir John Hale
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In fiction
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See also
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