conduction aphasia

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conduction aphasia - aphasia in which the lesion is assumed to be in the association tracts connecting the various language centers in the brain; patient's have difficulty repeating a sentence just heard

associative aphasia

aphasia - inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion

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In one such study, there were only two individuals; one of them was diagnosed as Broca's aphasia and the other as Conduction aphasia.16

The effectiveness of script training to restore lost communication in a patient with Broca's aphasia

His ability to repeat phrases, along with his intact comprehension and objectively fluent speech made a diagnosis of a conduction aphasia the most likely, indicating the possibility of arcuate fasciculus pathology.

Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: a case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma

Different subtypes of aphasia syndromes are often mentioned in neurology and cognitive neurosciences, including Broca's aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia, conduction aphasia, amnesic aphasia, and transcortical aphasia [41-46].