Aphasia: classification

Broca’s aphasia

• This is a non-fluent aphasia
• It is caused by lesions in the posterior inferior frontal lobe

Wernicke’s aphasia

Transcortical aphasia

Subcortical aphasia

Conduction aphasia: lesion locations

Conduction aphasia: features

Aphemia

Pure word deafness

Other aphasia types

References

1. Kertesz A. Clinical forms of aphasia. Acta Neurochir Suppl (Wien) 1993; 56:52-58. 
2. Kuljic-Obradovic DC. Subcortical aphasia: three different language disorder syndromes? Eur J Neurol 2003; 10:445-448.
3. Buchsbaum BR, Baldo J, Okada K, et al. Conduction aphasia, sensory-motor integration, and phonological short-term memory - an aggregate analysis of lesion and fMRI data. Brain Lang 2011; 119:119-128. 
4. Ojha PK, Nandavar S, Pearson DM, Demchuk AM. Aphemia as a presenting symptom in acute stroke. Neurol India 2011; 59:432-434.
5. Cohen L, Benoit N, Van Eeckhout P, Ducarne B, Brunet P. Pure progressive aphemia. JNNP 1993; 56:923-924.
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