Aphasia

• Posterior inferior frontal gyrus
• Nonfluent, effortful, slow halting speech, impaired repeition, better auditory comprehension

• Fluency: -
• Auditory Comp: +
• Repetition: -

• Superior frontal lobe
• Echolalia, perseveration, nonfluent, intact repetiton skills, generall good comprehension

• Fluency: -
• Auditory Comp: +
• Repetition: +

• Most severe form of nonfluent aphasia
• Greatly reduced fluency, impaired repetition, auditory comprehension limited to single words at best

• Fluency: -
• Auditory Comp: -
• Repetition: -

• Superior temporal gyrus
• Impaired repetition skills, poor auditory comprehension, neglogism, circumlocution, jargon

• Fluency: +
• Auditory Comp: -
• Repetition: -

Problems with reading; good ability to repeat phrases; fairly fluent speech with poor naming ability; unaware of speech errors; tendency for echolalia

• Fluency: +
• Auditory Comp: -
• Repetition: +

• Region between Broca and Wernicke (arucate fasiculus)
• Impaired repetition, near normal auditory comprehension

• Fluency: +
• Auditory Comp: +
• Repetition: -

• Angular gyrus, second temporal gyrus
• Most language functions, except for naming, are relatively unimpaired

• Fluency: +
• Auditory Comp: +
• Repetition: +