A question about Aphasia?!


Question: Aphasia is loss of speech. There are different types of aphasia that can occur. If Broca area was affected by a stroke would the content of the spoken word be affected or would the ability to pronounce the words be affected?


Answers: Aphasia is loss of speech. There are different types of aphasia that can occur. If Broca area was affected by a stroke would the content of the spoken word be affected or would the ability to pronounce the words be affected?

I always just remember that Broca starts the same as "broken"--if Broca's area is affected by a stroke, the speech quantity will be impoverished, with short, awkward sentences and few words.
A stroke in Wernicke's area produces a "fluent aphasia"--speech quantity is normal, but non-sensical.

do your own homework... I know the answer, and its not hard to find.

Content.

A disability in pronouncing speech is called a "dysarthria" rather than an "aphasia"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocas_area

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysarthria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia

There's a lot of crap on wikipedia, but it's a good source for checking basic medical concepts.





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