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Classification of Aphasic Phenomena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Andrew Kertesz*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, St. Joseph's Hospital, London, Canada
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Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, St. Joseph's Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4V2
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A brief but comprehensive survey of classifying aphasia reveals that most investigators describe at least four major groups, conveniently labelled Broca's, Wernicke's, anomic and global. Conduction and transcortical aphasias are less generally described and modality specific syndromes rarely, if ever, exist purely. The controversy between unifiers and splitters continues but objective numerical taxonomy may solve some of the problems of classification.

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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1976

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