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• Aphasia


  Inability to say things themselves, but can understand what is being said to them
• Aphasia


  • Patients can speak perfectly but have problems understanding what people say to them
• Epilepsy is a seizure disorder
• Seizures can change awareness, control, sensations, emotions and behaviours
• Electrical activity within the brain cells causes a seizure
• There is localisation of function (different brain parts are responsible for different things)
• Interpretive cortex


  Stores the emotional part of a memory