"Aphasia, Broca" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An aphasia characterized by impairment of expressive LANGUAGE (speech, writing, signs) and relative preservation of receptive language abilities (i.e., comprehension). This condition is caused by lesions of the motor association cortex in the FRONTAL LOBE (BROCA AREA and adjacent cortical and white matter regions).
| Descriptor ID |
D001039
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.606.150.500.800.100.100 C23.888.592.604.150.500.800.100.100
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| Concept/Terms |
Aphasia, Broca- Aphasia, Broca
- Agrammatic Broca's Aphasia
- Agrammatic Broca's Aphasias
- Agrammatic Brocas Aphasia
- Aphasia, Agrammatic Broca's
- Aphasias, Agrammatic Broca's
- Broca's Aphasia, Agrammatic
- Broca's Aphasias, Agrammatic
- Agrammatism
- Aphasia, Frontocortical
- Aphasias, Frontocortical
- Frontocortical Aphasia
- Frontocortical Aphasias
- Verbal Aphasia Syndrome
- Aphasia Syndrome, Verbal
- Aphasia Syndromes, Verbal
- Syndrome, Verbal Aphasia
- Syndromes, Verbal Aphasia
- Verbal Aphasia Syndromes
- Aphasia, Nonfluent
- Nonfluent Aphasia
- Broca Aphasia
- Aphasias, Broca
- Broca Aphasias
- Dysphasia, Broca
- Broca Dysphasia
- Dysphasia, Broca's
- Broca's Dysphasia
- Dysphasia, Brocas
- Agrammatic Broca Aphasia
- Agrammatic Broca Aphasias
- Aphasia, Agrammatic Broca
- Aphasias, Agrammatic Broca
- Broca Aphasia, Agrammatic
- Broca Aphasias, Agrammatic
- Aphasia, Motor
- Motor Aphasia
Aphasia, Ataxic- Aphasia, Ataxic
- Aphasias, Ataxic
- Ataxic Aphasia
- Ataxic Aphasias
Aphasia, Anterior- Aphasia, Anterior
- Anterior Aphasia
- Anterior Aphasias
- Aphasias, Anterior
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| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Aphasia, Broca" by people in Profiles.
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Marchina S, Norton A, Schlaug G. Effects of melodic intonation therapy in patients with chronic nonfluent aphasia. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2023 01; 1519(1):173-185.
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Wan CY, Zheng X, Marchina S, Norton A, Schlaug G. Intensive therapy induces contralateral white matter changes in chronic stroke patients with Broca's aphasia. Brain Lang. 2014 Sep; 136:1-7.
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Zipse L, Norton A, Marchina S, Schlaug G. When right is all that is left: plasticity of right-hemisphere tracts in a young aphasic patient. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2012 Apr; 1252:237-45.
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Armstrong E, Mortensen L, Ciccone N, Godecke E. Expressing opinions and feelings in a conversational setting. Semin Speech Lang. 2012 Feb; 33(1):16-26.
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Kurland J, Pulverm?ller F, Silva N, Burke K, Andrianopoulos M. Constrained versus unconstrained intensive language therapy in two individuals with chronic, moderate-to-severe aphasia and apraxia of speech: behavioral and fMRI outcomes. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2012 May; 21(2):S65-87.
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Kurland J, Falcon M. Effects of cognate status and language of therapy during intensive semantic naming treatment in a case of severe nonfluent bilingual aphasia. Clin Linguist Phon. 2011 Jun; 25(6-7):584-600.
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Martin PI, Naeser MA, Ho M, Doron KW, Kurland J, Kaplan J, Wang Y, Nicholas M, Baker EH, Alonso M, Fregni F, Pascual-Leone A. Overt naming fMRI pre- and post-TMS: Two nonfluent aphasia patients, with and without improved naming post-TMS. Brain Lang. 2009 Oct; 111(1):20-35.
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Norton A, Zipse L, Marchina S, Schlaug G. Melodic intonation therapy: shared insights on how it is done and why it might help. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Jul; 1169:431-6.
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Schlaug G, Marchina S, Norton A. Evidence for plasticity in white-matter tracts of patients with chronic Broca's aphasia undergoing intense intonation-based speech therapy. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Jul; 1169:385-94.
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Biegler KA, Crowther JE, Martin RC. Consequences of an inhibition deficit for word production and comprehension: evidence from the semantic blocking paradigm. Cogn Neuropsychol. 2008 Jun; 25(4):493-527.