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Aphasia
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
03/15/2011

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Aphasia
Definition
language disorder produced by brain damage
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Broca's Aphasia
Definition
caused by brain damage in left frontal lobe
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Broca's Symptoms
Definition
difficulty in procuding speech, little difficulty in perceiving speech, agrammatism in speech and writing
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Agrammatism
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inability to express grammatical relationships between words; omit articles and conjunctions, writing also impaired
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wernicke's aphasia
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caused by damage to left temporal lobe
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Wernicke's symptoms
Definition
impaired comprehension, little difficulty in producing language, paragrammatic speech
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paragrammatic speech
Definition
not making sense, fluent speech that has little info value; referential gesture, type of hand gesture in speech
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