conduction aphasia
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Definition
- Noun:
- A specific type of language impairment: Conduction aphasia is a neurological disorder characterized by a primary difficulty in repeating words and sentences, despite relatively preserved speech comprehension and spontaneous speech production.
- A neurological condition: It is classified as an aphasia where the underlying brain damage is theorized to affect the neural pathways (association tracts) that connect different language-processing areas of the brain.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The patient's symptoms, including fluent speech but an inability to repeat phrases, led to a diagnosis of conduction aphasia.
- Conduction aphasia is often studied to understand the connections between Broca's area and Wernicke's area in the brain.
Advanced Usage
- Clinical Context: The term is used almost exclusively in medical, neurological, and speech-language pathology contexts to describe a specific clinical profile.
- The speech-language pathologist specialized in the rehabilitation of individuals with conduction aphasia.
Variants and Related Words
- Aphasia (n): The broader category of language disorders caused by brain damage, of which conduction aphasia is one type.
- Stroke is a common cause of aphasia.
- Anomic aphasia (n): A type of aphasia primarily marked by difficulty finding words.
- Broca's aphasia (n): A type of aphasia characterized by non-fluent, effortful speech.
- Wernicke's aphasia (n): A type of aphasia characterized by fluent but often nonsensical speech and poor comprehension.
Synonyms
- Associative aphasia: A less common synonym emphasizing the disruption in associations between brain centers.
- Repetition aphasia: A descriptive term highlighting the core symptom.
Related Phrases / Collocations
- To have conduction aphasia: To be diagnosed with or exhibit the symptoms of this condition.
- After the stroke, he was found to have conduction aphasia.
- Deficit in repetition: The key clinical feature associated with conduction aphasia.
- The most prominent deficit in conduction aphasia is in repetition.
Noun
- 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