[Should aphasias be classified?].
In the same sense as classical monuments are classified? The more so as the classification described here goes back to the end of the 19th century, for it is the one which was designed by Wernicke (Breslau, Germany) and Lichtheim (Bern, Switzerland) and was remarketed by the Boston school (Geschwind, Goodglass, Kaplan, etc.) which invaded even the Japanese market. In view of their diversity, disorders of language in patients with cortical and subcortical lesions must be reorganized into syndromes that do not express a nuclear linguistic deficit. Interindividual differences are still the rule, which is not surprising in view of the numerous variance factors.
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Division de neuropsychologie, CHUV, Lausanne, Suisse.
D001037:Aphasia / Q000145:classification* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000293:injuries; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors