expressive aphasia
Basic Information
- Description
- An aphasia that is characterized by damage to, or a developmental issues in, the anterior regions of the brain, including (but not limited to) the left inferior frontal region known as Broca's area. Sufferers of this form of aphasia exhibit the common problem of agrammatism. For them, speech is difficult to initiate, non-fluent, labored, and halting.
- Identifier
- SYMP_0000705
- Notation
- SYMP:0000705
- Category
- symptoms
- Synonyms
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- agrammatic aphasia
- Broca's aphasia
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