Aphasia, Alexia, and Agraphia

ability abnormality accepted activities additional agraphia alexia anatomical anomia aphasic aphasic patients aphasic syndromes appears approach apraxia associated auditory become Benson better brain Broca aphasia called cause cerebral characteristics clinical combination common complication comprehension conduction aphasia considerable considered consistently correlation cortical damage defect demonstrated described descriptions developed difficulty discussed disorder disturbance dominant evaluation examiner fail field findings fluent frequently frontal hand hemisphere important improvement indicate individual involving language function later lesion less limited localization loss major material motor neuroanatomical neurologic nonfluent normal noted observations occur offer output particularly pathology patient performed posterior present problems produce proved pure recent recognized recovery remains repetition reported scan seen sensory separate severe significant specific speech spoken language studies suggested syndrome techniques term therapy tion transcortical types understand usually variations variety vascular verbal output visual Wernicke aphasia writing written