Receptive Aphasia in Popular Culture
- “Failure to Communicate,” an episode of Fox’s medical television series House, M. D., featured a patient experiencing both receptive aphasia and agraphia. (The episode first aired on January 10, 2006.)
- In “Babel,” an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a virus causes this type of aphasia.
- In an episode of Boston Legal, Alan Shore is diagnosed with word salad which arises during periods of anxiety. Shore struggles with word salad for the rest of the show.
- The character of Samuel T. Anders suffers from a form of word salad in Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica after being hit in the head with a bullet during the mutiny aboard Galactica.
- In the television series The Twilight Zone, the episode "Wordplay" shows the point of view of a man gradually developing a form of receptive aphasia.
- The Monty Python sketch "Dr. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease" involves a man (Michael Palin) whose discussion of the symptoms with his doctor (John Cleese) is in somewhat garbled sequence, a common symptom of the condition.
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