Expressive aphasia

Broca 's aphasia is named after the French neurologist Paul Broca aphasia ( language disorder ), in which mainly the speech production is affected.

Formation

Usually found in a Broca 's aphasia extensive damage to the frontal cortex.

Effects

The language of Broca's aphasics appear unflüssig and greatly reduced - as in telegram style.

The word finding is laborious and delayed in these aphasic patients, often phonemic Paraphrasien be ( phonetic changes in words such as / Jegan / for " gone " ) are used.

The use of morphology and syntax is disrupted, thereby sentence structure and grammar are greatly shortened ( agrammatism )

However, the understanding of language is often maintained during speech disorder. Only with more complex sentence structures ( sentence embeddings, passive constructions, early objects ), in which the meaning can be developed only through function words (eg: My pit bull has this German Shepherd dog bitten "! ) It becomes difficult The language understanding relatively well preserved often leads to patients. with Broca 's aphasia have a distinctive disorder awareness and very suffer from their disorder.

Even deaf patients with Broca 's aphasia produce unflüssige, agrammatische sign language.