THE ANATOMICAL BASIS OF CONDUCTION APHASIA
THE ANATOMICAL BASIS OF CONDUCTION APHASIA
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DOI:
10.1093/brain/103.2.337
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
14.5
通讯作者:
DAMASIO, AR
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作者:
DAMASIO, H;DAMASIO, AR
THE concept of conduction aphasia has been central to the understanding of language disorders since the early writings of Wernicke (1874) and the controversy regarding its definition, anatomical basis and pathophysiological mechanism has continued to our times. But while the current definition provided by the Boston school of aphasia (Geschwind, 1965; Goodglass and Kaplan, 1972), seems to have clarified the question of the existence and clinical essence of the syndrome, Geschwind's interpretation of the disturbance as a disconnection syndrome (1965) has not been universally accepted (see Warrington and Shallice, 1969; Brown 1972). Such controversy often obscures the fact that the pathological substrate on which the disconnection hypothesis is based never has been challenged and appears fundamentally correct whatever stand you take on the issue of interpreting its functional significance. In this article we present anatomical findings in six cases of conduction aphasia, obtained with a method for localization of lesions in computerized tomography scans (Damasio and Damasio, 1979; Damasio, Damasio, Hamsher and Varney, 1979). We reconsider the anatomical correlates of conduction aphasia and discuss their bearing on the production of the syndrome.