1. Stroke, head trauma and brain tumors can cause anomia . 2. Anomia is often burdensome on the families and friends of those suffering from it.3. Patients with Broca s aphasia may also have difficulty with word retrieval, or anomia . 4. Bilingual patients typically experience anomia to a greater degree in just one of their fluent languages. 5. One prevalent deficit in the aphasias is anomia , which is a deficit in word finding ability. 6. This type of anomia may also arise as a consequence of a disconnect between sensory and language cortices. 7. Wernicke's aphasia is associated with anomia , unknowingly making up words ( neologisms ) and problems with comprehension. 8. Some of the patients received a drug known to help relieve symptoms of anomia ( levodopa ) while others received a placebo. 9. The inability to name colors is called color anomia ; it may or may not go together with inability to distinguish colors. 10. It's as if people suffer from a kind of anomia : They can recognize the note but can't label it.