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comparision of principal aphasic syndromes
Clinical manifestations:
1) fluency
- Broca's: abnormal
- Wernicke's: normal, paraphasic
- global: abnormal
- conduction: normal, paraphasic
- motor:* abnormal or normal
- sensory:* normal, echolalic
- anomic: normal
2) auditory comprehension
- Broca's: relatively normal
- Wernicke's: abnormal
- global: abnormal
- conduction: relatively normal
- motor:* relatively normal
- sensory:* abnormal
- anomic: relatively normal
3) repetition
- Broca's: abnormal
- Wernicke's: abnormal
- global: abnormal
- conduction: abnormal
- motor:* relatively normal
- sensory:* relatively normal
- anomic: normal
4) naming
- Broca's: abnormal
- Wernicke's: abnormal
- global: abnormal
- conduction: usually abnormal
- motor:* abnormal
- sensory:* abnormal
- anomic: abnormal
5) reading comprehension
- Broca's: normal or abnormal
- Wernicke's: abnormal
- global: abnormal
- conduction: relatively normal
- motor:* relatively normal
- sensory:* abnormal
- anomic: normal or abnormal
6) writing
- Broca's: abnormal
- Wernicke's: abnormal
- global: abnormal
- conduction: abnormal
- motor:* abnormal
- sensory:* abnormal
- anomic: normal or abnormal
* transcortical motor aphasia & transcortical sensory aphasia
Related
amnesic-dysnomic aphasia (anomic aphasia)
Broca's aphasia (non-fluent aphasia)
conduction aphasia
global aphasia
transcortical motor aphasia
transcortical sensory aphasia
Wernicke's aphasia; fluent aphasia; garbled speech
References
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, Osterweil et al eds,
McGraw Hill, New York, 2000, pg 75