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Aphasias
Hallmarks and differential diagnoses
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All modalities severly affected, including repetition. | Global aphasia |
| Difficulty planning and executing expressive language. Repetition impaired at word to phrase level. | Broca's aphasia |
| Similar to Broca's with the exception of repetition. Hallmark is spared repetition at the sentence level and beyond. | Transcortical Motor |
| Hallmark is spared repetition at the sentence level and beyond. | Transcortical Sensory |
| Posterior lesion typically spares upper extremity motor status; Pt able to write with dominant hand. Repetition impaired at word to phrase level. | Wernicke's Aphasia |
| Hallmark is severe to profound deficits in repetition and oral reading with other language modalities relative strengths. | Conduction Aphasia |
| Hallmark: deficits in word retrieval Good repetition | Anomic Aphasia |