Practice question · Multiple choice
A patient produces fluent, well-formed sentences that convey almost nothing, comprehends poorly, and appears unaware of any difficulty. Which aphasia is this, and what makes the diagnosis quick?
Hints
- Fluency is the fastest thing to assess at the bedside.
- Fluent output with poor comprehension is the classic posterior pattern.
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C. Wernicke's aphasia, fluency plus poor comprehension and lack of awareness
Why
Wernicke's. Fluency separates it from Broca's at once, and the combination with poor comprehension and absent awareness completes it. Conduction aphasia, the first option, spares comprehension and impairs repetition specifically.
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