Medicina: Neuropsicologia cognitiva
| English |
| mixed transcortical aphasia |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun phrase
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| Definition |
Rare aphasia subtype in which repetition is relatively intact despite significant aphasia. Spontaneous speech is nonfluent, and patients are unable to name, read, and write.
Rare aphasia subtype in which repetition is relatively intact despite significant aphasia. Spontaneous speech is nonfluent, and patients are unable to name, read, and write. Repetition, however, is normal up to standard span length and it may be echolalic. Norman Geshwind (American neurologist, 1962-1984) used the term “isolation of the speech area” since the pathology spares perisylvian language areas but involves the surrounding vascular watershed zones.
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| Definition source |
Loring D.W. 1999
Loring D.W. 1999
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| Context |
In contrast, Marks et al. (1957) found that expressive-type aphasics benefited most from speech therapy. Basso et al. (1975) reported no significant differences in rate of recovery between Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasics. Benson (1979b) and Kertesz and McCabe (1977) found that patients with mixed transcortical aphasia showed little if any recovery. Prins, Snow, and Wagenaar (1978) found no qualitative or quantitative differences between groups (fluent, mixed, nonfluent, severely nonfluent), despite differences in severity. Using fluency alone as the basis for classification, there was no differentiation among types of aphasia.
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| Context source |
Sarno 1991
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| Subject field |
Aphasia
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Aphasiology
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| Sub-field (level 2) |
Clinical neuropsychology
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| Sub-field (level 3) |
Aphasic syndromes
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| Generic concept |
Transcortical aphasia
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| Causal relation |
Transcortical motor aphasia, Transcortical sensory aphasia
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| it |
Afasia transcorticale mista
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| Reliability code |
3
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