TY - JOUR
T1 - Broca's Aphasia Following Damage to Wernicke's Area
T2 - For or Against Traditional Aphasiology?
AU - Daffner, Kirk R.
AU - Rubin, Nan
AU - Mesulam, M. Marsel
AU - Schomer, Donald L.
AU - Cosgrove, G. Rees
PY - 1991/7
Y1 - 1991/7
N2 - Classic aphasiology has been challenged by studies that have employed cranial computed tomography to test predicted anatomic-behavioral correlations. We treated a patient who developed a classic Broca's aphasia but whose computed tomographic scan revealed damage to Wernicke's area, thus seeming to contradict the principles of traditional aphasiology. However, subsequent information obtained by magnetic resonance imaging, intracarotid amobarbital (Amytal) testing, and electrophysiologic studies, including cortical stimulation, demonstrated that the brain-behavior correlations in this patient can be understood in terms of the formulations of traditional aphasiology.
AB - Classic aphasiology has been challenged by studies that have employed cranial computed tomography to test predicted anatomic-behavioral correlations. We treated a patient who developed a classic Broca's aphasia but whose computed tomographic scan revealed damage to Wernicke's area, thus seeming to contradict the principles of traditional aphasiology. However, subsequent information obtained by magnetic resonance imaging, intracarotid amobarbital (Amytal) testing, and electrophysiologic studies, including cortical stimulation, demonstrated that the brain-behavior correlations in this patient can be understood in terms of the formulations of traditional aphasiology.
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U2 - 10.1001/archneur.1991.00530190114023
DO - 10.1001/archneur.1991.00530190114023
M3 - Article
C2 - 1859305
AN - SCOPUS:0025787214
SN - 0003-9942
VL - 48
SP - 766
EP - 768
JO - Archives of Neurology
JF - Archives of Neurology
IS - 7
ER -