Aphasia Types

Question 1

Transcortical Motor Aphasia

Answer 1

1. Nonfluent Aphasia characterized by starts & stops, impaired insight, dysfluent/anomic speech
   Repetition is intact
   Receptive Language is intact
2. Damage to watershed area

Question 2

Transcortical Mixed Aphasia

Answer 2

1. Nonfluent Aphasia characterized by comprehension deficits, while still allowing people to repeat words, phrases, and sentence
2. Damage to anywhere in language regions

Question 3

Conduction Aphasia

Answer 3

1. Fluent aphasia characterized by impaired repetition, phonemic paraphasias and anomia with intact receptive language and insight
2. Damage to supramarginal gyrus of the parietal lobe

Question 4

Global Aphasia

Answer 4

1. Nonfluent aphasia characterized by word finding difficulties, anomia, impaired receptive language and inability to comprehend word meaning.
   Varied reading, writing, and repetition
2. Damage location varies

Question 5

Transcortical Sensory Aphasia

Answer 5

1. Fluent aphasia characterized by impaired insight and receptive language, intact repetition with semantic paraphasias.
2. Damage to occipital - parietal junction in temporal lobe near Wernicke’s area

Question 6

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 6

1. Fluent aphasia characterized by impaired insight, impaired receptive language, impaired reading/writing/repetition
   Exp. language includes neologisms and paraphasias
2. Damage to left posterior superior temporal gyrus (Wernicke’s area)

Question 7

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 7

1. Nonfluent aphasia characterized by impaired repetition and writing, intact insight and receptive language
   Expressive language is halting, effortful, nonfluent, agrammatic and telegraphic.