aphasia - DocNeuro https://docneuro.com/tag/aphasia/ Up-to-date concepts in neurology Sun, 07 Feb 2021 18:41:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Conductive aphasia https://docneuro.com/conductive-aphasia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conductive-aphasia Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:12:56 +0000 https://docneuro.jz7sunfr-liquidwebsites.com/conductive-aphasia/ Conductive aphasia is defined as the inability to repeat a spoken phrase, even when comprehension is intact and speech production is otherwise normal. Conductive aphasia is classically caused by lesions to the arcuate fasciculus (usually on the left). The arcuate fasciculus is a curved bundle of axons that projects from Wernicke’s area to Broca’s area. […]

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]]> Classifying aphasia https://docneuro.com/classifying-aphasia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=classifying-aphasia Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:39:49 +0000 https://docneuro.jz7sunfr-liquidwebsites.com/classifying-aphasia/ Aphasia is defined as a loss of the ability to understand or produce speech, usually caused by damage to the cerebrum. It is important to clinically classify the type of aphasia a patient has, as this helps localize the lesion and has implications for therapy. It is first important to distinguish aphasia from dysarthria. Dysarthria […]

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