Dictionary of Biological Psychology
A major clinical syndrome of APHASIA (Goodglass & Kaplan, 1983). Patients classified as anomic aphasic produce fluent speech with relatively preserved grammatical structure. The primary feature is ANOMIA which usually is most pronounced for nouns and may affect other content words.
Mild impairment of language comprehension is inclusive in the syndrome. Patients classified with WERNICKE’S APHASIA may evolve to anomic aphasia as comprehension skills are recovered. Lesions associated with anomic aphasia are rarely focal and tend to comprise multiple small lesion sites that are remote from one another.
Reference
Goodglass, H. & Kaplan, E. (1983) The Assessment of Aphasia and Related Disorders, 2nd edn, Lea & Febiger: Philadelphia.
CHARLOTTE C.MITCHUM
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