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Aphasias
symptoms, locations and underlying deficits of various aphasias
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Speech-Language Pathology
Undergraduate 1
08/14/2013

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Term

Broca's area,

Definition
inferior frontal gyrus, BAs 44 & 45
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Wernicke's area

Definition

posterior superior temporal gyrus, BA 22

 

 

 

Term

Conduction aphasia

 

(location)

Definition
arcuate fasciculus, supramarginal gyrus, lower postcentral gyrus
Term

Extrasylvian/Transcortical Motor aphasia

 

(location)

Definition

left dorsolateral prefrontal damage

 

 

 

Term

Broca's aphasia

 

(symptoms)

Definition
  • Nonfluent speech, poorly articulated
  • deficiency of inflectional affixes
  • deficiency of syntactic structure
  • good general comprehension
  • difficulty in comprehending grammatical words

 

Term

Extrasylvian/Transcortical Motor aphasia

 

(symptoms)

Definition
  • normal articulation
  • intact repetition
  • (kind of) nonfluent output
  • good comprehension
Term

Conduction aphasia

 

(symptoms)

Definition
  • good comprehension
  • poor repetition (many phonemic/literal paraphasias)
  • fluent speech

 

Term

Wernicke's aphasia

 

(symptoms)

Definition
  • fluent speech
  • phonemic/literal and semantic/verbal paraphrasia
  • augmentation - extra syllables, words or phrases
  • dyslexia and dysgraphia
  • paragrammatism- incorrect use of inflectional markers and varying clause structure
Term
Wernicke's aphasia
Definition
Term

Extrasylvian/Transcortical Sensory aphasia

(symptoms)

Definition
  • intact repetition
  • fluent speech
  • impaired comprehension
  • frequent paraphasia
  • echolalia
  • pointing impaired
  • naming impaired
  • dysgraphia & dyslexia

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