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nonfluent aphasia

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nonfluent aphasia [′nän‚flü·ənt ə′fā·zhə]
(psychology)
Aphasia characterized by effortful articulation and loss of syntax, but relatively well-preserved auditory comprehension; generally the result of injury to the speech zone anterior to the Rolandic fissure. (Broca's area). Also known as Broca's aphasia.
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Similarly, Raymer and Ellsworth found improvements in sentence production accuracy in response to a semantic verb-retrieval treatment with a participant with nonfluent aphasia and mild verb-retrieval impairment [7].
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Other conditions that have gathered under the umbrella of FTD during the last decade include frontotemporal lobar degeneration, progressive nonfluent aphasia, semantic dementia, motor neuron inclusion dementia, and cortical-basal degeneration, Dr.
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This was followed by a nonfluent aphasia about a month after the injury, and the patient became progressively more obtunded and comatose.
Pierre Paul Broca. (A Portrait in History) by Jay, Venita / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
 
 
 
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