Symptoms of Brocas aphasia
What are the clinical features of Brocas aphasia and where is the lesion responsible for it?
Speech is nonfluent, effortful, agrammatic, and telegraphic, with poor ability to name, semantic and phonemic paraphasic errors, impaired repetition, and relatively spared comprehension.
The lesion is in Broca’s area (the frontal operculum, Brodmann areas 44 and 45), inferior left frontal gyrus, the surrounding frontal areas, and the underlying white matter and subjacent basal ganglia.
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