Causes of Aphasia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Fluent - Grammatically correct, but nonsensical, tangential. Phonemic & semantic paraphasias
Non-Fluent - Agrammatic, hesitant, but substantive communication
Impaired Repetition
• Impaired Comprehension - Wernicke's Aphasia, Global Aphasia
• Intact Comprehension - Conduction Aphasia, Broca's Aphasia
Intact Repetition
• Impaired Comprehension - Transcortical Sensory Aphasia, Mixed Transcortical Aphasia
• Intact Comprehension - Anomic Aphasia, Transcortical Motor Aphasia
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