Conductive Dysphasia
November 5th, 2019
Overview
Signs of Conductive Dysphasia
- Inability to repeat phrases
- Recognition of errors (unlike in receptive dysphasia)
- Paraphasias: switching of a word in a sentence for another incorrect word
- Neologisms: new words created by the patient
Significance
- Suggests a lesion affecting the arcuate fasciculus of the dominant hemisphere, which connects Wernicke's and Broca's areas.
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