APHEMIA

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Nugent, Pam M.S.
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n. Originally defined by French physician Pierre Paul Broca (1824-1880), this refers to a motor aphasia with nonfluency (i.e., lack of speech) but intact language functioning - as evidenced by intact writing abilities. This condition was later renamed Broca

APHEMIA: "A person with aphemia suffers from lack of speech but is able to write in a normal manner."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. BROCA'S APHASIA
  2. BROCA'S AREA
  3. BRAIN LOCALIZATION THEORY
  4. NONFLUENT APHASIA
  5. WESTERN APHASIA BATTERY (WAB)
  6. BRIQUET'S SYNDROME
  7. EXPRESSIVE APHASIA
  8. APHASIA
  9. TRANSCORTICAL APHASIA
  10. MELODIC INTONATION THERAPY (MIT)
Cite this page: Nugent, Pam M.S., "APHEMIA," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/aphemia/ (accessed July 22, 2017).
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